Artificial Intelligence and CFD: Expert Systems for the Design of Airfoils andfor Grid Generation

摘要

The potential application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of Expert Systems(ES) to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is shown. The application of such techniques to the design of aerodynamic shapes is discussed. The expert system IDEA (Intelligence Design of Airfoils) is presented. The problems connected to the acquisition and codification of aerodynamic design expertise are shown. Application of AI techniques to the problem of the positioning/decomposition of a computational domain is outlined. The solution of such problems is important to facilitate the generation of three dimensional grids and to create better data structures for massively parallel computing.