An introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms and their application to the Aerofoil Design Problem - Part II: the Results

. This paper is the second part of a short course on the utilisation of Evolutionary Algorithms as an effective means to solve the Aerofoil Design Problem in Aerodynamics. In it their application to both Direct and Inverse Aerofoil Design Problem is described, and results are given. Finally, several possible parallel models for Evolutionary Algorithms are discussed, and the results of the application of one of them to the above problem are presented. Keywords: Evolutionary Algorithms, Aerofoil Design Optimisation, Direct Design, Inverse Design, Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms. 1 Introduction In Part I we have briefly described some of the most important instances of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), and we have clearly shown their differences. We have pointed out that such techniques are very general, that is they can be used in several fields very different one from another. One of the possible application fields is that of Aerodynamic Design, since in this area even the simplest prob..