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Adjoint Equation-Based Methods for Control Problems in Incompressible, Viscous Flows

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A review of adjoint equation-based methodologies for viscous,incompressible flow control and optimization problems is given and illustrated by a drag minimization example. A number of approaches to ameliorating the high storage and CPU costs associated with straightforward implementations of adjoint equation based methodologies are discussed. Other issues, including the relative merits of the differentiate-then-discretize and discretize-then-differentiate approaches to deriving discrete adjoint equations, the incorporation of side constraints into adjoint equation-based methodologies, and inaccuracies that occur due to differentiations at the boundary, are also discussed.

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Gunzburger, M. Adjoint Equation-Based Methods for Control Problems in Incompressible, Viscous Flows. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 65, 249–272 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011455900396

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