[shsreekanth]

Hi,

1. What does the objective functions Nearfield pressure, Equivalent Area, Efficiency.. imply?
2. Also, in the other geometric constraint what does Area imply?
3..How can I impose a constraint on the volume of a shape in 3D or correspondingly area in 2D?
4. How to add a new constraint to the code ?

Sreekanth

[economon]

Dear Sreekanth,

Some answers embedded below...

Originally Posted by shsreekanth

1. What does the objective functions Nearfield pressure, Equivalent Area, Efficiency.. imply?

Nearfield pressure and Equivalent Area are related to boom noise minimization for supersonic aircraft. Efficiency is L/D.

Originally Posted by shsreekanth

2. Also, in the other geometric constraint what does Area imply?

Area in the case of a geometric constraint is the area internal to an airfoil or section cut of a wing.

Originally Posted by shsreekanth

3..How can I impose a constraint on the volume of a shape in 3D or correspondingly area in 2D?

At the moment, we don't have 3D volume constraints (we are working on this), but the Area option for the constraints will work as described in #2.

Originally Posted by shsreekanth

4. How to add a new constraint to the code ?

If you are interested in adding new constraints, the main module is SU2_GDC. Please see the CBoundaryGeometry class in geometry_structure.cpp in order to find the current implementations of the constraints.

Cheers,
Tom

[shsreekanth]

Thank you, I will try to figure out what is given in SU2_GDC.

[shsreekanth]

Originally Posted by economon

If you are interested in adding new constraints, the main module is SU2_GDC. Please see the CBoundaryGeometry class in geometry_structure.cpp in order to find the current implementations of the constraints.

Hi,
Could you tell me something more on how its implemented? I am unable to figure out what is being done in the code.
What should I be looking for?
Which are the functions that I should modify/ add ?

Thank you.
Sreekanth

[economon]

Originally Posted by shsreekanth

Hi,
What should I be looking for?
Which are the functions that I should modify/ add ?
Sreekanth

You'll want to give the routines such as CBoundaryGeometry::Compute_MaxThickness(), CBoundaryGeometry::Compute_AoA(), CBoundaryGeometry::Compute_Area(), etc. a look. These are where we compute the various geometric quantities that we use as constraints (these are called from main() in SU2_GDC.cpp). It should be straightforward to add more routines like these that can be called from SU2_GDC.cpp in order to compute some new geometric quantities of interest using the boundary geometry.

Hope this helps,
T