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Fig. 1.1 Number of publications regarding CFD-O based on the search tool Scopus. The
year 1999 is chosen as reference year and is thus associated to a value of 1
explains why most available books and articles dealing with Optimization
relying on evaluations obtained by Computational Fluid Dynamics (what we
abbreviate in this book as CFD-O, or CFD-based Optimization) concern such
situations. Even then, the number of such books and review articles remains
quite limited. We have so far only found two books published since 1999
that deal exclusively with CFD-O (obviously, a large number of books consider
this issue, but only for a single chapter or a few pages). The work of
Mohammadi and Pironneau [5] sets the emphasis on shape optimization for
aeronautical applications using adjoint methods, a topic that will be mostly
considered in Chapters 3 to 5 of the present book. The book by Gunzburguer
[4] covers both optimization and control of flows relying on CFD, but
concentrates mostly on control issues in practice and is mainly written as a
tutorial for students. No review article could be found on this topic at all.
In order to get a more global albeit inexact scope of the literature, an
Internet-based literature search has been carried out using the professional
scientific literature search tool Scopus (see http://www.scopus.com). The
year 1999 is retained as reference year and is thus associated to a value
of 1. By comparison, the number of references found by Scopus for all the
years until 2006 is represented in Fig. 1.1. The search criterion considers only
title and abstracts of all corresponding publications and looks for ((CFD or
Computational Fluid Dynamics) and (Optimization or Optimisation)). This
is obviously a very nonspecific search and hence will leave out a few relevant
publications as well as identify several publications for which “Optimization”
simply means “Improvement”, as explained previously. It is nevertheless interesting
to identify the trend associated with CFD-O. As seen in Fig. 1.1,
the number of corresponding publications has multiplied by a factor of 12
within 7 years demonstrating the rapid development of this field.