Preliminary Investigations on Aerodynamic Vehicle Optimization Using the Adjoint Method with Adjoint Turbulence

Abstract

The application of the continuous adjoint method for the optimization of an internal flow duct will be presented. The required surface sensitivities will be determined by using the Frozen-Turbulence approach and by applying adjoint turbulence models. For the latter case a Low-Re-version of the k-ε model as well as the k-ε-ζ-f model will be fully differentiated and implemented in OpenFOAM.