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Figure 7

From: Adjoint methods for car aerodynamics

Figure 7

Intake port topology optimisation results. The three figures (a)-(c) show the Pareto-optimal states for low, mid- and high swirl weighting, respectively. The grey areas within the intake port arms are the cells that were blocked during the topology optimisation. Note the obvious improvement of swirl (ω, bottom numbers) from (a) to (c) at the cost of increasing pressure drop (Δp, top numbers), as compared to the original flow of Figure 6. The topology of the high swirl case (c) was recasted into a new CAD description and recomputed (d). Flow field, swirl and pressure drop confirm the results of the topology optimisation (details see [14]).

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