Dear Colleagues,

The open-source journal Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310), currently JCR - Q1 (Engineering, Aerospace) / CiteScore - Q2 (Aerospace Engineering), is hosting a special issue devoted to adjoint methods in CFD.

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 focus of this Special Issue is mainly, but not exclusively, on adjoint-based shape design, including properties of adjoint solutions, continuous, discrete and unsteady adjoint implementations, and multidisciplinary adjoint-based optimization of aircrafts, ships, automobiles, etc.

In addition to these topics, this Issue is open to any contribution concerning the application of adjoint methods to other computational fluid dynamics problems such as error estimation and goal-oriented mesh adaptation, stability analysis, data assimilation, uncertainty quantification, etc.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023

Carlos Lozano

Jorge Ponsin

Guest Editors