Dear Colleague,

we would be pleased to welcome you to this conference on adjoint-based design optimisation. Please pass this message on to your interested colleagues.

With best regards, Jens-Dominik Mueller

First Announcement:

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Conference on industrial design optimisation for fluid flow, Munich, 28-29 March 2012.

http://flowhead.sems.qmul.ac.uk/events/conference2012/

Overview

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The EC-funded research project FlowHead has developed adjoint-based optimisation methods for shape and topology optimisation of fluid flow with application to the automotive industry. The project and ESI Group are organising a final conference to present

- The state of the art in industrial design optimisation for fluids,

- The results of the FlowHead project,

- Future challenges in development and application of adjoint sensitivity methods.

The focus in FlowHead was on:

- development of continuous and discrete adjoint flow solvers for industrial application,

- CAD-based, morphing-based and node-based parametrisations,

- industrial application of topology optimisation for fluids,

- robust design,

- industrial application and the integration into the product development process.

Invited speakers

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Prof. R.P. Dwight (TU Delft)

"Discrete Adjoint Methods and Applications: Beyond Optimization"

Prof. K. Giannakoglou (NTUA Athens):

"Development and application of continous adjoint methods."

Prof. R. Loehner (George Mason Univ., Washington):

"Adjoint design optimisation"

Prof. U. Naumann (RWTH Aachen):

"Toward First- and Higher-Order Discrete Adjoint Flow Solvers"

Dr. A. Naumovich (DLR)

"Algebraic multigrid for solution of adjoint equations in

compressible aerodynamics"

Call for papers

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Oral and poster presentations are invited on the topics above. Please submit a one-page abstract in pdf format by January 9, 2012 if you would like to present a paper or a poster. Please direct your queries to the FlowHead project coordinator Dr. J.-D. Mueller, j.mueller@qmul.ac.uk.

In addition to the topics covered by the project as listed above, submissions are welcome on topics such as

- Recent developments, novel approaches, future applications in adjoint-based optimisation,

- Industrial application of adjoint-based optimisation in the automotive industry, but also aeronautical, turbomachinery, etc.

- Application examples, benchmarks, industrial requirements ...

- Alternative approaches in goal-based optimisation

Organising Comittee

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Dr. F. Duddeck, TU Muenchen,

Prof. K. Bletzinger, TU Muenchen,

Dr. J.-D. Mueller, QMUL,

Dr. M. Megahed, ESI,

Dr. C. Othmer, Volkswagen AG

For any queries, please contact the organisers at: flowhead@qmul.ac.uk

Key dates:

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30 Nov: First call, online registration opens,

15 Dec: Second call,

9 Jan: Submission deadline for abstracts, 1page,

31 Jan: Notification of acceptance,

20 Feb: early registraton closes,

28-29 Mar: Conference

Venue

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The conference will be held on the Faculty Club, Lichtenbergstrasse 2a, on the Garching campus of TU Munich. Garching is conveniently reached from MUC airport and connected to the Munich U-Bahn/S-Bahn train system, http://www.mvv-muenchen.de .

Cost

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Cost of the conference is 300EUR to cover lunches, coffees and a conference dinner. A limited number of fellowships for students are available.

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Dr. Jens-Dominik Müller

School of Engineering and Materials Science

Queen Mary, University of London

j.mueller@qmul.ac.uk