Output details

Concise airfoil representation via case-based knowledge capture.

Significance of output:

This is a key output of a £400k Research Fellowship funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The field of Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) saw rapid development facilitated by increasingly fast numerical simulation capabilities and improved optimization algorithms until the inadequacy of its very object - the parametric geometries being optimized - became the bottleneck. Most importantly, the cost of MDO grows exponentially with the dimensionality of the geometry. This paper describes one- or two variable airfoil geometries – a significant step forward when the norm in the literature is around 5-10.