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Integrated Design of an Active Flow Control System Using aTime-Dependent Adjoint Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2011

Abstract

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An exploratory study is performed to investigate the use of a time-dependent discreteadjoint methodology for design optimization of a high-lift wing configuration augmentedwith an active flow control system. The location and blowing parameters associated with aseries of jet actuation orifices are used as design variables. In addition, a geometricparameterization scheme is developed to provide a compact set of design variablesdescribing the wing shape. The scaling of the implementation is studied using severalthousand processors and it is found that asynchronous file operations can greatly improvethe overall performance of the approach in such massively parallel environments. Threedesign examples are presented which seek to maximize the mean value of the liftcoefficient for the coupled system, and results demonstrate improvements as high as 27%relative to the lift obtained with non-optimized actuation. This lift gain is more thanthree times the incremental lift provided by the non-optimized actuation.

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Research Article
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© EDP Sciences, 2011