Adjoint CODA & FlowSimulator for EXACT-2

Kurzfassung

CODA is the new-generation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software being developed as part of a collaboration between the French Aerospace Lab ONERA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Airbus, and their European research partners. Unlike other CFD software, CODA is a CFD library by design embedded into the FlowSimulator HPC ecosystem. This significantly enables a seamless and modular integration with MDAO frameworks and workflows. In order to enable CODA for EXACT-2 MDAO scenarios, we provide efficient adjoint MDAO capabilities in CODA, develop efficient propeller modelling support for gradient-based MDAO of electric aircraft, and provide these capabilities behind a generalized and derivative-enabled framework API called FSMDAO to integrate CODA and other FlowSimulator plugins into mixed-fidelity workflows.