INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMIZATION AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN IN AERONAUTICS AND TURBOMACHINERY

From May 7 - 11, 2012

von Karman Institute, Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium

This course is realized with the support of the Scientific Research Community on Numerical Methods for Mathematical Modeling of FWO Flanders

 

INTRODUCTION

Innovative optimization and design techniques for modern aircraft (manned or UAV/UCAV) and engine systems aiming at maximum performance in a multidisciplinary context (aerodynamic efficiency, safety, drag, losses, weight, strength, heat fluxes, emission, noise, …), are now rapidly moving from research labs to industrial real and virtual platforms. To reach concurrently this level of excellence, emergent optimization methodologies require more and more robust and efficient associated software for a daily use in industrial collaborative design environments.

This course intends to provide the basic concepts and tools behind this technology, both in single discipline (single point or multi point design) and multidisciplinary (fluid-structure interaction, fluid-acoustics, conjugate heat transfer, …) context. Subjects which will be treated in detail include: gradient based and steepest descent methods, adjoint methods, one shot or goal oriented methods, evolutionary/differential evolution algorithms on parallel environments, game strategies like Pareto Fronts and Nash Equilibrium, parameterization, surrogate and reduced-order modeling (Radial Basis functions, Artificial Neural Networks, Kriging …), multifidelity modeling approaches,  robust design, …

The content of this Course is oriented towards junior and experienced engineers and researchers involved in the field of multi disciplinary design and looking for innovative numerical solutions - or set of solutions- for complex multi criteria optimization problems.

The Lecture Series directors are Prof. J. Périaux, from CIMNE/Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya and Prof. T. Verstraete from the von Karman Institute.

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Monday 7 May, 2012

• 08:45    Registration
• 09:15    Welcome address
• 09:30    Introduction to Optimization and Multidisciplinary Design
  Prof. T. Verstraete, VKI, Belgium
• 10:45    Differentiable Shape Optimization - Part I
  Prof. O. Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• 14:00    Differentiable Shape Optimization - Part II
  Prof. O. Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• 15 :45    Theoretical Background for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
  Dr. J. Vassberg, The Boeing Company, USA

Tuesday 8 May, 2012

• 09:00    Adjoint Approaches in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization and MDO Context – Part I
  Prof. N. Gauger, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• 10:45    Adjoint Approaches in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization and MDO Context - Part II
  Prof. N. Gauger, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• 14:00    The Continuous Adjoint Method: Theory and Industrial Applications
  Prof. K. Giannakoglou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• 15:45    Industrial Applications of Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
  Dr. J. Vassberg, The Boeing Company, USA

Wednesday 9 May, 2012

• 09:00    Adjoint Approaches in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization and MDO Context - Part III
  Prof. N. Gauger, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• 10:45    Hierarchical, Metamodel-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms, with Industrial Applications
  Prof. K. Giannakoglou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• 14:00    Robust Design Optimization – theory and applications Part I
  L. Parussini,University of Trieste, Italy
• 15:45    Robust Design Optimization – theory and applications Part II
  L. Parussini, University of Trieste, Italy

Thursday 10 May, 2012

• 09:00    Multidisciplinary Optimization of Turbomachinery Components using Differential Evolution
  Prof. T. Verstraete, VKI, Belgium
• 10:45    Surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling techniques Part I
  Prof. R. Dwight, TUDelft, The Netherlands
• 14:00    Surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling techniques Part II
  Prof. R. Dwight, TUDelft, The Netherlands
• 15:45   MOO Methods for Multidisciplinary Design Using Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms, Game Strategies and Hierarchical Topology : Theoretical and Numerical Aspects (Part 1)
  Prof. J. Periaux, CIMNE/UPC, Barcelona, Spain and Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Friday 11 May, 2012

• 09:00    MOO Methods for Multidisciplinary Design Using Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms, Game Strategies and Hierarchical Topology: Practical Applications to the Design and Optimization of UAV Systems (Part 2)
  Prof. J. Periaux, CIMNE/UPC, Barcelona, Spain and Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland
• 10:45    Optimization Strategies Used in Turbomachinery Design from an Industrial Perspective
  Dr. S. Shahpar, Rolls-Royce, U.K.
• 14:00     Challenges Facing Designers to Achieve a Successful Application of Automatic Optimization in Turbomachinery Design
  Dr. S. Shahpar, Rolls-Royce, U.K.

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Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium