Browsing by Author "Sherman, Jason C."

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    Designing airplane struts using minimal surfaces
    (2002-07) Alagoz, Dilek; Hoogendoorn, Stephanie; Kakollu, Satyanarayana; Valle, Sara Del; Moeller, Todd; Natarajan, Siva Kumar; Pencheva, Gergina V.; Sherman, Jason C.; Wise, Steven M.; Grandine, Thomas (mentor)
    A model for minimizing the effects of skin drag and pressure drag is constructed. We show that a simple scaling technique can be used to transform a dual, constrained minimization problem into a volume constrained surface area minimization. We discuss some successes and failures with implementing numerical methods for the problem.