Alagoz, DilekHoogendoorn, StephanieKakollu, SatyanarayanaValle, Sara DelMoeller, ToddNatarajan, Siva KumarPencheva, Gergina V.Sherman, Jason C.Wise, Steven M.Grandine, Thomas (mentor)2007-08-162007-08-162002-07https://hdl.handle.net/11299/3797A 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.