Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design
Monday 23 May 2016 - Friday 27 May 2016VKI secretariat, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Phone: +32 2 359 96 04
The VKI LS is organized under the auspices of ERCOFTAC.
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. Jacques Périaux, from CIMNE/Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya and Prof. Tom Verstraete from Queen Mary University of London/the von Karman Institute.
Preliminary programme
Monday 23 May 2016
- 08:45 Registration
- 09:15 Welcome
- 09:30 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design, Part I
Dr. Tom Verstraete and Dr. Jens-Dominik Mueller, Queen Mary University of London - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 11:15 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design, Part II
Dr. Tom Verstraete and Dr. Jens-Dominik Mueller - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Theoretical background for aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. John Vassberg, The Boeing Company, USA and Prof. Antony Jameson, Stanford University, USA - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Multidisciplinary adjoint optimization of aircraft, Part I: A modular coupled adjoint approach
Prof. Joaquim R.R.A. Martins, University of Michigan, USA - 17:00 Reception
Tuesday 24 May 2016
- 09:00 Multidisciplinary adjoint optimization of aircraft, Part II: High-fidelity aerostructural optimization
Prof. Joaquim R.R.A. Martins - 10:30 Coffee Break
- 11:00 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part I
Prof. Nicolas Gauger, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part II
Prof. Nicolas Gauger - 15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:45 Industrial applications of aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. John Vassberg and Prof. Antony Jameson
Wednesday 25 May 2016
- 09:00 Differentiable shape optimization
Prof. Olivier Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France - 10:30 Coffee Break
- 11:00 The continuous adjoint method in shape, flow control and topology optimization
Prof. Kyriakos Giannakoglou, National TU of Athens, Greece - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Industrial/automotive applications of the adjoint method
Prof. Kyriakos Giannakoglou and Dr. C. Othmer, Volkswagen, Germany - 15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:45 Influence of shape parameterization on aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. John Vassberg, Prof. A. Jameson
Thursday 26 May 2016
- 09:00 Multidisciplinary optimization of turbomachinery using differential evolution
Prof. Tom Verstraete - 10:30 Coffee Break
- 11:00 Reduced-cost evolutionary algorithms for industrial use
Prof. Kyriakos Giannakoglou - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Recent, efficient optimization strategies used in turbomachinery design
Prof. Shahrokh Shahpar, Rolls-Royce, United Kingdom - 15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:45 Hybridized evolutionary optimization with game strategies for design. applications to multi objective design in aeronautics
Prof. Jacques Périaux, CIMNE/UPC and Univ. of Jyvaskyla and Dr. Felipe Gonzalez, Queensland Technical University and Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation
Friday 27 May 2016
- 09:00 Theoretical basis, examples and challenges of aerodynamic shape design using evolutionary computation
Dr. Domenico Quagliarella, CIRA, Italy - 10:30 Coffee Break
- 11:00 Challenges facing designers to achieve a successful application of automatic optimization in turbomachinery design
Prof. Shahrokh Shahpar - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Visit of the VKI laboratories
Fee & Registration
Early bird (until March 23, 2016 included)
Normal fee (after March 23, 2016)
Type 1: Permanent residents of NATO countries funding VKI: Belgium, Croatia (since October 2016), Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey
Type 2: Permanent residents of NATO countries or NATO partner countries not funding VKI
Type 3: Permanent residents of non-NATO countries
For PhD candidates and undergraduate students: The request to be considered for a discount must accompany the application to attend the Lecture Series, and the applicant must provide a recommendation letter from his or her professor; if not, 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. The normal fee price list is available here.
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
Slides
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Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode (near Brussels), Belgium