Unsteady CFD and adjoint development for aerodynamic optimization of urban air mobility vehicles

• Effective time-spectral CFD and adjoint development for periodic flow

• Exploring pseudo-spectral algorithms for general unsteady flow

• Coupled wing-body-propulsion optimization

References:

• AIAA Scitech 2021 Paper [preprint]

• AIAA Scitech 2020 Paper [doi][preprint][Slides]