Stochastic versus gradient-based optimizers for CFD design
Madara M. Ogot, Sherif Aly, Richard B. Pelz, Frank Marconi, Michael J. Siclari · 34th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit · 1996
Three modifications to simulated annealing are presented and applied to CPD shape optimization problems. Nearly optimal solutions are found reliably and on the order of hundreds of objective function evaluations.