Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design in Aeronautics and Turbomachinery
Monday 07 April 2014 - Friday 11 April 2014VKI secretariat, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Phone: +32 2 359 96 04
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/UPC, Spain and Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland and Prof. T. Verstraete from the von Karman Institute.
Programme
Monday 7 April, 2014
- 8:45 Registration
- 9:15 General introduction
Dr. Jean Muylaert, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium - 9:30 The importance of optimization in FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects
D. Knoerzer, European Commission, Belgium - 9:45 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design, Part I
Prof. T. Verstraete, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium - 10:45 Coffee break
- 11:15 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design, Part II
T. Verstraete - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Theoretical background for aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. J. Vassberg, The Boeing Company, USA and Prof. A. Jameson, Stanford University, USA - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part I
Prof. N. Gauger, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - 17:00 Reception
Tuesday 8 April, 2014
- 09:00 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part II
Prof. N. Gauger - 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:45 The continuous adjoint method in shape, flow control and topology optimization
Prof. K. Giannakoglou, National TU of Athens, Greece - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Industrial applications of aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. J. Vassberg and Prof. A. Jameson - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Industrial/automotive applications of the adjoint method
Prof. K. Giannakoglou and Dr. C. Othmer, Volkswagen, Germany
Wednesday 9 April, 2014
- 09:00 Adjoint-based techniques for supersonic aircraft design: aerodynamic performance and sonic boom optimization
Prof. J. Alonso, Stanford University, USA - 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:45 Differentiable shape optimization
Prof. O. Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Influence of shape parameterization on aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. J. Vassberg and Prof. A. Jameson - 15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:45 Reduced-cost evolutionary algorithms for industrial use
Prof. K. Giannakoglou - 17:00 Extra lecture: “Boomerang flight dynamics"
J. Vassberg
Thursday 10 April, 2014
- 09:00 Multi-fidelity surrogate methods for the design of future aircraft using evolutionary algorithms
Prof. J. Alonso - 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:45 Multidisciplinary optimization of turbomachinery using differential evolution
Prof. T. Verstraete - 12:00 Lunch
- 13:00 Visit to the lab
- 14:00 Optimization strategies used in turbomachinery design from an industrial perspective
Prof. S. Shahpar, Rolls-Royce, United Kingdom
- 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Hybridized evolutionary optimization with game strategies for multidisciplinary design. applications to aeronautics, part I
Prof. J. Périaux, CIMNE/UPC and Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Spain and Dr. F. Gonzalez, Queensland Technical University and Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, Australia
Friday 11 April, 2014
- 09:00 Hybridized evolutionary optimization with game strategies for multidisciplinary design. applications to aeronautics, part II
Prof. J. Périaux and Prof. F. Gonzalez - 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:45 Surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling techniques, Part I
Prof. R. Dwight, TU Delft, The Netherlands - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling techniques, Part II
Prof. R. Dwight - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Challenges facing designers to achieve a successful application of automatic optimization in turbomachinery design
Prof. S. Shahpar - 17:00 End of the lecture series
Fee & Registration
Early bird (until February 7, 2014 included)
Normal fee (after February 7, 2014)
Type 1: Permanents residents of NATO countries funding VKI: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey
Type 2: Permanents residents of NATO countries not funding VKI or NATO partners countries
Type 3: Permanents residents of non -NATO countries
For the PhD candidate and undergraduate student: The request to be considered for an award must accompany the application to attend the Lecture Series, and the applicant must provide a recommendation letter from his or her professor; if not done so, the request will not be taken into consideration. All possible alternative sources of funding should be investigated before aid is requested under this scheme, so that those most in need will benefit.
REDUCTION for the normal fee. Not applicable when early bird.
-50% for the 3rd & 4th participant from the same company.
REDUCTION
-50% for the 3rd & 4th participant from the same company.
METHOD OF PAYMENT
Payment 2 weeks prior to the beginning of the course (name and course title clearly indicated) by bank transfer to our account IBAN BE57 2100 3153 3035 , SWIFT BIC GEBABEBB
Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode (near Brussels), Belgium