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Rafael Palacios

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Professor in Computational Aeroelasticity
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5075r.palacios CV

 
 
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Location

 

338City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Gomes:2020:10.2514/6.2020-0894,
author = {Gomes, P and Palacios, R},
doi = {10.2514/6.2020-0894},
title = {Aerodynamic driven multidisciplinary topology optimization of compliant airfoils},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-0894},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - We propose a strategy for density-based topology optimization of fluid structure interaction problems that deals with some short-comings associated with non stiffness-based design problems. The method is demonstrated on a problem where we seek to improve the passive load alleviation characteristics of a highly compliant airfoil at high speed while producing sufficient lift at a lower speed. The fluid structure interaction is simulated with the multi-physics suite SU2, which includes RANS modelling of the fluid and hyper-elastic material behaviour of the geometrically-nonlinear structure. Gradient-based optimization is used with the coupled aerostructural sensitivities being obtained via an algorithmic differentiation-based coupled discrete adjoint solver.
AU  - Gomes,P
AU  - Palacios,R
DO  - 10.2514/6.2020-0894
PY  - 2020///
TI  - Aerodynamic driven multidisciplinary topology optimization of compliant airfoils
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-0894
ER  -
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