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In the face of growing public awareness of environmental issues such as climate change, the pressure to provide efficient and ecological new air transport solutions is higher than ever on the aviation community. To this aim, unconventional aircraft configurations, which are radically [...]Abstract
Against the background of the big environmental and societal challenges as formulated for example in Flightpath 2050, current developments in aircraft design are aiming at further emission reduction through integrated, unconventional propulsion, systems and airframe innovations. This [...]Abstract
The design of turbomachinery creates a strong demand for the simultaneous optimization of multiple blade rows with regard to different disciplines including aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and solid mechanics. Established gradient-free methods, typically surrogatebased methods, have [...]