A MULTIOBJECTIVE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION STUDY FOR A SUBSONIC SUBMERGED INLET BY EZGI S. TASKINOGLU A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School—New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ‘Written under the direction of Doyle D. Knight and approved by New Brunswick, New Jersey MAY, 2004© 2004 EZGI S. TASKINOGLU ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION A MULTIOBJECTIVE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION STUDY FOR A SUBSONIC SUBMERGED INLET by EZGI S. TASKINOGLU Dissertation Director: Doyle D. Knight ‘The purpose of the present work is to summarize the findings of a multiobjective shape optimization study conducted for a subsonic submerged air vehicle inlet. ‘The objective functions of the optimization problem are distortion and swirl indices defined by the distri- bution of flow parameters over the exit cross-section of the inlet. The geometry alteration is performed by placing a protrusion in the shape of a fin on the baseline inlet surface. ‘Thus, the design variables of the optimization problem are chosen to be the geometrical parameters defining the fin protrusion; namely fin height, length and incidence angle, The ‘Trade Off (also known as c-constraint) method is employed for finding the Pareto optimal set formed by the nondominated solutions of the feasible design space. Since the flow do- main solution is required for every step along the line search, an automated optimization loop is constructed by integrating the optimizer with a surface modeler, a mesh generator and a flow solver through which the flow parameters over the compressor face are com- puted. In addition, the trade study for fin protrusion, the analyses and the comparison of the baseline and Pareto optimal solutions are presented and observations concerning grid resolution and convergence behaviour are discussed. ‘The results display an irregular and ii