Aerodynamic Optimization of Flight Wing

Dear Colleagues,

Aerodynamic performance is a core determinant of fuel efficiency, flight safety, and mission adaptability in aircraft. In the context of the aviation industry’s transition toward low-carbon operations, high economic efficiency, and broad mission envelopes—together with aerospace engineering breakthroughs in high reliability and reusability—aerodynamic optimization has become a critical link in the aircraft design chain.

This Special Issue of Aerospace highlights cutting-edge research in aerodynamic optimization across a range of aerospace systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles, commercial airliners, propeller-driven aircraft, and reusable spacecraft. The aerodynamic design of such complex configurations presents multiple challenges, including robust design optimization under uncertainty, integrated aerodynamic optimization of airframe-propulsion systems, global drag reduction optimization of laminar wings, and unsteady interference–coupling optimization between propellers and wings.

This Special Issue emphasizes practical breakthroughs in aerodynamic optimization methods, focusing on robust optimization techniques, efficient optimization strategies, and AI-driven optimization approaches. The diversification of aircraft configurations and the increasing complexity of flow fields continue to raise the difficulty of aerodynamic optimization design, posing major challenges for optimization algorithms—particularly in convergence efficiency—and for balancing accuracy and computational speed in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

To advance progress in this field, the Editors invite contributions that address these challenges in aerodynamic optimization of aerospace vehicles and propose new theories for robust and efficient optimization.

Dr. Yayun Shi
Dr. Kaixuan Feng
Guest Editors

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• robust design optimization
• computational fluid dynamics
• aerodynamic optimization
• AI-based modeling
• optimization algorithm
• uncertainty quantification
• efficient optimization strategy
• gradient-based optimization
• heuristic algorithms
• drag reduction optimization
• hypersonic aerodynamic modeling
• full-mission cycle aerospace aerodynamic optimization