25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS2006-3.11S

EXERGY BASED DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR AIRFOIL SHAPE OPTIMIZATION AND WING ANALYSIS

H. Li, J. Stewart*, R. S. Figliola
Clemson Univ., USA; *General Electric

Keywords: Exergy Entropy Optimization Airfoil Wing

This paper applies an exergy-based method on airfoils and wings to investigate the impact of exergy on aerodynamic designs. We report our efforts to couple a numerical code with an exergy analysis, a shape shifting algorithm and an optimization code to achieve desired airfoil and wing shapes.

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