SQP method for adjoint based aerodynamic shape optimization

cfdbooks · May 25, 2009, 04:33

Could anyone tell me how to use the SQP(NPSOL package)method for adjoint based aerodynamic shape optimization? Or give me some references in detail. Thanks in advance.

jed · May 25, 2009, 11:30

Learn LNKS (Lagrange-Newton-Krylov-Schur) first, it provides a more powerful framework and RSQP drops out as an unpreconditioned and generally suboptimal case. Read the Biros & Ghattas papers, or the Akcelik et al. survey.

cfdbooks · May 26, 2009, 10:40

Thank you Jed. But I can not understand. Will NPSOL give a searching direction? I can not input objective function and constrains(also their gradients) analytically but in discrete form.

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cfdbooks New Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 16	Could anyone tell me how to use the SQP(NPSOL package)method for adjoint based aerodynamic shape optimization? Or give me some references in detail. Thanks in advance.

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May 25, 2009, 11:30		#2
jed Member Jed Brown Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 56 Rep Power: 19	Learn LNKS (Lagrange-Newton-Krylov-Schur) first, it provides a more powerful framework and RSQP drops out as an unpreconditioned and generally suboptimal case. Read the Biros & Ghattas papers, or the Akcelik et al. survey.

May 26, 2009, 10:40		#3
cfdbooks New Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 16	Thank you Jed. But I can not understand. Will NPSOL give a searching direction? I can not input objective function and constrains(also their gradients) analytically but in discrete form.