Dr Laurence J Kedward
MEng, PhD
Current positions
Research Software Engineer
Department of Aerospace Engineering
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Research interests
Laurence's research is currently focussed on the representation and manipulation of engineering geometry for numerical optimisation. This includes:
- Surface and volume spline methods
- Gradient-based optimisation algorithms
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Algorithmic differentiation
- Adjoint methods
- Mesh deformation
- High performance computing
Publications
Recent publications
20/06/2022Preliminary Investigation of Hessian Approximation with an Orthogonal Modal Parameterisation for Accelerated Shape Optimisation
AIAA Aviation Forum 2022
Constructing Geometry for Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation using Volume of Solid Driven Cellular Automata
Subdivision Multi-Resolution Systems for Three-dimensional Aerodynamic Optimisation
Comparing Matrix-based and Matrix-free Discrete Adjoint Approaches to the Euler Equations
AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, January 2020, Orlando, FL
Generic Modal Design Variables for Aerodynamic Shape Optimisation
AIAA AVIATION Forum, June 2020
Thesis
Efficient numerical geometry handling for gradient-based aerodynamic shape optimisation
Supervisors
Award date
22/03/2022
