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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 752931, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2012/752931 Research Article Optimal Design of a Centrifugal Compressor Impeller Using Evolutionary Algorithms Soo-Yong Cho,1 Kook-Young Ahn,2 Young-Duk Lee,2 and Young-Cheol Kim2 1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (RECAPT), Gyeongsang National University, 900 Gajwa-dong, Gyeongnam, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Eco-Machinery, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, 171 Jang-dong, Daejeon 305-343, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Soo-Yong Cho, sycho@gnu.ac.kr Received 29 May 2012; Revised 7 September 2012; Accepted 7 September 2012 Academic Editor: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Copyright q 2012 Soo-Yong Cho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. An optimization study was conducted on a centrifugal compressor. Eight design variables were chosen from the control points for the Bezier curves which widely influenced the geometric varia- tion; four design variables were selected to optimize the flow passage between the hub and the shroud, and other four design variables were used to improve the performance of the impeller blade. As an optimization algorithm, an artificial neural network ANN was adopted. Initially, the design of experiments was applied to set up the initial data space of the ANN, which was improved during the optimization process using a genetic algorithm. If a result of the ANN reached a higher level, that result was re-calculated by computational fluid dynamics CFD and was appli