Particle swarm airfoil optimization

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Uploaded by on Feb 10, 2011

Design progression of an airfoil using particle swarm optimization. The top and bottom surfaces are formed using b-spline curves. Axes are not to scale. Convergence was achieved after 199 iterations with 25 particles in the swarm. This video shows th design progression of one of those particles.

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  • It's a b-spline curve, which I think is a type of bezier curve.

  • No, it's definitely not real time. Each XFoil call takes at least a couple seconds (I give it a max of a minute) and there were I think about 50 XFoil calls per iteration for this case (25 particles with 2 XFoil calls each per iteration).

    The code is written in Matlab. I've given out the code to a few people/groups already and wouldn't mind having it on your site. It looks like a pretty good resource but I don't know much about it.

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  • @montagdp I would very much appreciate to get the code since I am working on a similar code for optimization. Could you provide me the code montagdp?

  • How did you parameterise your aerofoil geometry? Was it a bezier curve?

  • Hi @montagdp, how long did it take for this 14 seconds video to be calculated? It wasn't realtime, was it? Because it needs a lot of xfoil calls :).

    By the way is it your programme and is it OpenSource? It would be really great to hove such an application for aerospaceresearchDOTnet/conste­­llation.

    Perhaps you need some more distributed computing power!

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