Roclawski, HaraldMoscoso, MiguelRodríguez Rodríguez, VíctorTechnische Universität Kaiserslautern. Fachbereich Elektechnik und Informationstechnik2013-03-222013-03-222012-102012-10-31http://hdl.handle.net/10016/16571In this study the kind of airfoil used is a variant from the commonly utilized ones, due to the conditions in which it will have to work. Instead of the usual applications where the fluid is air, in this case the airfoil must operate in water. The aim within the whole work is to optimize the airfoil shape. To be precise, optimizing means maximizing the aerodynamic force called lift on the airfoil. The lift to drag ratio will be another important control parameter during all the process. There is a specific shape given some certain boundary conditions and constraints that makes possible to obtain the maximum value of the lift. What has been done is, in short, starting from a C++ code already developed in charge of the airfoil geometry generation, adapt it so as to be able to manually introduce variations on the geometry. The geometry will be imported on ANSYS Workbench, properly meshed afterwards and then the problem will be solved on Fluent. The final step, i.e., the optimization, will be carried out by the Optimization Toolbox included in MATLAB. MATLAB is also the tool that commands all the process, calling subroutines and launching other programs from its DOS command.application/pdfapplication/pdfengAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaTurbomaquinariaTurbinas submarinasOptimización automáticamaster thesisIngeniería Industrialopen access