Optimization of Wing Lift-to-Drag Ratio for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk with RBF Morph — Ep 01
Optimization of Wing Lift-to-Drag Ratio for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk with RBF Morph
- Lesson
- 01
- Run Time
- 12m 57s
- Published
- Oct 17, 2026
- Category
- Aerodynamics & Aerospace
- Course Progress
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About This Lesson
- The problem numerically simulates the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk using ANSYS Fluent
- The geometry is designed in SpaceClaim, and the meshing is performed using fluent Meshing.
- The mesh type is polyhedral, and the element number equals 2,063,629.
- We aim to Maximize the Lift-to-Drag Ratio of wings.
- We use the Adjoint Solver to analyze the Shape Sensitivity.
- The Design Optimization is performed with the Gradient-based
- The Radial Basis Function (RBF) is used to apply Mesh Morphing.