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  1. Robust Mesh Deformation for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization with Large Geometric Changes

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  2. Optimization of Twin-Aisle-Class Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft Incorporating Critical Requirements and High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Modelling

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  3. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Transonic Strut-Braced-Wing Regional Jet With Natural Laminar Flow

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  4. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Transonic Swept Wings for Natural Laminar Flow

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  5. Local Algebraic Transition Model With Crossflow Correlations and Compressibility Corrections

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  6. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Blended Wing-Body Aircraft with Lateral-Directional Stability Constraints

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  7. Optimization and Experimental Validation of a Robust S-Duct Geometry With Boundary-Layer Ingestion

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  8. Progress in the Application of an Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Capability Using Hybrid Laminar Flow Control to Airfoils and Infinite Swept Wings

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  9. Gradient-Enhanced Bayesian Optimization With Application to Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Andre Marchildon

  10. Application of Aerodynamic Shape Optimization to Swept Natural Laminar Flow Wings

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  11. S-Duct with Boundary Layer Ingestion: Geometry Optimization and Validation

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  12. Aerodynamic Optimization of a Flying V Aircraft Based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  13. Hybrid Wing-Body Aircraft Optimization Under Practical Design Requirements

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Aiden Gray

  14. Cross Validation of Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Methodologies for Aircraft Wing-Body Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  15. Preliminary Design of a Solar-Powered Hybrid Airship

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, March 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  16. Multidimensional Diagonal-Norm Summation-by-Parts Operators on Quadrilateral Elements

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  17. Optimization of Multi-dimensional Summation-by-Parts Operators

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Andre Marchildon

  18. Generalized Summation-By-Parts Methods: Coordinate Transformations, Quadrature Accuracy, and Functional Superconvergence

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  19. Energy- and Entropy-Stable Multidimensional Summation-by-Parts Discretizations on Non-Conforming Grids

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  20. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization for the Design of Natural-Laminar-Flow Wings

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Michael Piotrowski

  21. Multifidelity Optimization of Hybrid Wing–Body Aircraft with Stability and Control Requirements

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, December 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Mark Rakowitz

  22. Aerostructural Optimization of Drooped Wings

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, May 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Shahriar Khosravi, David Zingg

  23. Example of a Pitfall in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, April 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  24. Investigation into Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Planar and Nonplanar Wings

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  25. Efficient Monolithic Solution Algorithm for High-Fidelity Aerostructural Analysis and Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, October 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  26. High-Order, Entropy-Conservative Discretizations of the Euler Equations for Complex Geometries

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  27. Investigation of Multimodality in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Gregg Streuber

  28. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Box-Wing Regional Aircraft Based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  29. Aerostructural Perspective on Winglets

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, May 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Shahriar Khosravi

  30. Tensor-Product Summation-by-Parts Operators

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  31. Comparison of B-Spline Surface and Free-Form Deformation Geometry Control for Aerodynamic Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Christopher Lee

  32. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization for Natural Laminar Flow Using a Discrete-Adjoint Approach

    Article • AIAA Journal, November 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Ramy Rashad

  33. High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Lifting-Fuselage Concept for Regional Aircraft

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, October 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  34. Performance of a Newton–Krylov–Schur Algorithm for Solving Steady Turbulent Flows

    Article • AIAA Journal, September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  35. Euler-Equation-Based Drag Minimization of Unconventional Aircraft Configurations

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  36. Aerodynamic Optimization Trade Study of a Box-Wing Aircraft Configuration

    Article • Journal of Aircraft, July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  37. Simultaneous Approximation Terms for Multidimensional Summation-by-parts Operators

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  38. Aerodynamic Design of Blended Wing-Body and Lifting-Fuselage Aircraft

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  39. Surface Mesh Movement Algorithm for Computer-Aided-Design-Based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, February 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  40. Progress in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  41. Two-Level Free-Form and Axial Deformation for Exploratory Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

    Article • AIAA Journal, July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  42. Optimization of the Aerodynamic Performance of Regional and Wide-Body-Class Blended Wing-Body Aircraft

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  43. Investigation of Efficient High-Order Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods Based on Generalized Summation-by-Parts Operators

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  44. New Diagonal-Norm Summation-by-Parts Operators for the First Derivative with Increased Order of Accuracy

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  45. Development of Generalized Summation-by-Parts Operators for the Second Derivative with Variable Coefficients

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  46. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization for Natural Laminar Flow Using a Discrete-Adjoint Approach

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  47. Opportunities for efficient high-order methods based on the summation-by-parts property (Invited)

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  48. Drag Minimization Based on the Navier–Stokes Equations Using a Newton–Krylov Approach

    Article • AIAA Journal, June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  49. Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Benchmark Problems Using Jetstream

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Christopher Lee

  50. Performance of a Newton-Krylov-Schur Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of the Steady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations (Invited)

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  51. Aerodynamic Optimization Trade Study of a Box-Wing Aircraft Configuration

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  52. High-Fidelity Aerostructural Optimization with Integrated Geometry Parameterization and Mesh Movement

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Shahriar Khosravi

  53. A Numerical Optimization Study on Winglets

    Article • June 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg, Shahriar Khosravi

  54. Steady three-dimensional turbulent flow computations with a parallel Newton-Krylov-Schur algorithm

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  55. Application of Jetstream to a Suite of Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Problems

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  56. Aerodynamically Optimal Regional Aircraft Concepts: Conventional and Blended-Wing-Body Designs

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg

  57. High-fidelity Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Unconventional Aircraft through Axial Deformation

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    David Zingg