Multid的isciplinary Aircraft Conceptual Design.pptVIP

Dassault Visit 12/11/99 Srinivas et al. Multidisciplinary Aircraft Conceptual Design  Overview Multi-Criteria Problems Aeronautical design problems normally require a simultaneous optimisation of conflicting objectives and associated number of constraints. They occur when two or more objectives that cannot be combined rationally. For example: …..Multi--Criteria Optimisation Pareto Optimality Formally, the Pareto optimal set can be defined as the set of solutions that are non-dominated with respect to all other points in the search space, or that they dominate every other solution in the search space except fellow members of the Pareto optimal set. For two solutions x and y (in minimisation form): Nash Games The Problem… Problems in aeronautical design optimisation: Traditional optimisation methods will fail to find the real answer in most real engineering applications. Fitness functions of interest are generally multimodal with a number of local minima. Sometimes the optimum shape/s is not obvious to the designer. The fitness function will involve some numerical noise. Most aerodynamic design problems will need to be stated in multi-objective form. Modern aeronautical design uses CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and FEA almost exclusively. CFD has matured enough to use for preliminary design and optimisation. The internal workings of validated in-house solvers are essentially inaccessible from a modification point of view (they are black-boxes). … The Solution…. Why Evolution? Techniques such as Evolution Algorithms can explore large variations in designs. They also handle errors and deceptive sub-optimal solutions with aplomb. They are extremely easy to parallelise, significantly reducing computation time. They can provide optimal solutions for single and multi-objective problems. EAs successively map multiple populations of points, allowing solution diversity. They are capable of finding a number of solutions in a Pareto set or calculating a robust Nas