Coupling of Fluids, Structures and Waves in Aeronautics, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003 Proceedings of a French-Australian Workshop in Melbourne, Australia 3–6 December 2001 Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design Series, Vol. 85

1 Fluids.- The effect of noise and vibration on separated flow regions in hypersonic flow.- Computational bluff body fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity.- Dynamics and control of flames interacting with pressure waves.- A general method for studying the hydrodynamic stability of flows in enclosures.- 2 Structures.- Application of unsteady fluid-structure methods to problems in aeronautics and space.- Numerical simulation in aeroelasticity for complex configurations in a transonic flow.- Numerical prediction of flow instabilities and aeroelastic effects.- Explicit finite element modelling of impact events on composite aerospace structures.- Dynamics and control of smart structures using piezoelectric actuators and sensors.- Overview of nonlinear finite element modelling of flexible manoeuvring aerospace structures.- 3 Electromagnetics.- Inverse problems in HF radar.- Antenna integration on aircraft; needs and methodology.- An iterative method for time-harmonic integral Maxwell’s equations.- High performance computation and visualization of EMs using an integrated computation system.- 4 Optimisation.- Genetic algorithm optimisation of mathematical models — an aircraft structural dynamics case study.- Techniques for optimal shape design.- Evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective design optimisation.- 5 Mathematical Methods and Tools.- Some remarks on fluid-structure interaction problems in case of rigid body plus small perturbations.- An investigation of the least-squares finite element method in electromagnetism.- Fluids, finite elements and multi-physics.- 6 Aircraft design.- Status and future challenges of CFD in a coupled simulation environment for aircraft design.- Challenges in development of mini and micro air vehicles.- Round Table Discussion.- Future toolsfor design and manufacture of innovative products in the aeronautics industry.

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