Adjoint-Based Techniques in Computational Fluid Dynamics: Theory and Applications
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 82
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aeroelasticity; computational fluid dynamics; aerodynamics; numerical simulation; fluid mechanics; aeronautical engineering; mechanical engineering
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Interests: aerodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; adjoint methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to cover ongoing advances in the development and application of adjoint methods in fluid dynamics. In addition to original research articles, review papers, letters or communications, technical reports, and extended versions of conference papers are likewise accepted.
The main topics that we expect to cover include the following:
- Properties of adjoint solutions, including analytic results;
- Continuous, discrete and unsteady adjoint implementations, including new developments concerning robustness, accuracy and time-efficiency of adjoint solvers;
- Shape parameterisation and robust mesh deformation;
- Aplication of adjoint methods to multidisciplinary shape optimization, error estimation and goal-oriented mesh adaptation, uncertainty quantification and robust design, data assimilation, stability analysis, etc.
Dr. Jorge Ponsin
Dr. Carlos Lozano
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- adjoint equations
- continuous adjoint method
- discrete adjoint method
- aerodynamic design
- properties of adjoint solutions
- gradient-based optimization
- computational fluid dynamics
- multidisciplinary optimization
- adjoint-based stability analysis
- error estimation and mesh adaptation
- uncertainty quantification
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