Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design
Monday 10 September 2018 - Friday 14 September 2018VKI 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. Jacques Périaux, from CIMNE/Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya and Prof. Tom Verstraete from the von Karman Institute.
Programme
Monday 10 September 2018
- 8:30 Welcome
- 9:00 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design I
Prof. T. Verstraete, von Karman Institute & Universiteit Gent, Belgium - 10:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Introduction to optimization and multidisciplinary design II
Prof. T. Verstraete - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Aerodynamic shape optimization of turbomachinery components - an industrial perspective I
Dr. M. Meyer, Rolls Royce Deutschland, Germany - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Aerodynamic shape optimization of turbomachinery components - an industrial perspective II
Dr. M. Meyer - 17:00 Reception
Tuesday 11 September 2018
- 09:00 Theoretical background for aerodynamic shape optimization (title TBC)
Dr. J. Vassberg, The Boeing Company, USA and Prof. A. Jameson, Stanford University, USA - 10:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Industrial applications of aerodynamic shape optimization
Dr. J. Vassberg and Prof. A. Jameson - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Efficient sensitivity computation using automatic differentiation
Prof. J.-D. Mueller, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 CAD-based parametrisations for adjoint optimisation
Prof. J.-D. Mueller
Wednesday 12 September 2018
- 09:00 Differentiable shape optimization
Prof. O. Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France - 10:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 The continuous adjoint method in aerodynamic optimization, with applications
Prof. K. Giannakoglou, National TU of Athens, Greece - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part I
Prof. N. Gauger, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Adjoint approaches in aerodynamic shape optimization and MDO context, Part II
Prof. N. Gauger
Thursday 13 September 2018
- 09:00 CAD-based multidisciplinary optimization of turbomachinery components by gradient-based methods
Prof. T. Verstraete - 10:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Low-cost evolutionary optimization, with engineering applications
Prof. K. Giannakoglou - 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Visit of the von Karman Institute laboratories
- 14:00 Hybridized evolutionary optimization with game strategies for design. Applications to multi objective design in aeronautics
Prof. J. Périaux, CIMNE/UPC and Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Spain & Prof. F. Gonzalez, Queensland Technical University and Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, Australia - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 CAD-based multidisciplinary optimization of turbomachinery components by gradient-free methods
Prof. T. Verstraete
Friday 14 September 2018
- 09:00 Adaptive surrogate modelling for global optimization in aerodynamic design I
Prof. R. Dwight, TU Delft, the Netherlands - 10:30 Coffee break
- 11:00 Adaptive surrogate modelling for global optimization in aerodynamic design II
Prof. R. Dwight, TU Delft, the Netherlands - 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Aircraft multidisciplinary design via numerical optimization, part 1
Prof. A. Abbas, UPM, Spain - 15:15 Coffee break
- 15:45 Aircraft multidisciplinary design via numerical optimization, part 2
Prof. A. Abbas, UPM, Spain - 17:00 End of the lecture series
Fee & Registration
Early bird (until July 10, 2018 included)
Normal fee (after July 10, 2018)
Type 1: Permanent residents of NATO countries funding VKI: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Romania 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% as from the 3rd participant from the same company.
Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics