MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

By THOMAS THOMPSON

ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION EUROPEAN INDUSTRY-LED RESEARCH COLLABORATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES OUTLINE OF THE BOOK REFERENCES CHAPTER 2 MDO AT PREDESIGN STAGE NOMENCLATURE COMPUTATIONAL WORK?OW MANAGEMENT MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS DESIGN ROBUSTNESS RESULTS CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 3 HELICOPTER PREDESIGN STRATEGY: DESIGN-TO-MASS OR DESIGN-TO-COST? ROTORCRAFT ANALYSIS TOOL SPECI?CATION OF REQUIREMENTS PREDESIGN METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS FEATURES LIFE-CYCLE-COST MODEL LIFE-CYCLE-COST MODEL IN PREDESIGN ANALYSIS TOOL OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY CONCLUDING REMARKS CHAPTER 4 AEROELASTICITY AND SIZING IN A MULTILEVEL MODELING APPROACH FOR PRELIMINARY DESIGN MOTIVATION BASIS CONSIDERATIONS FOR A MODULAR FRAMEWORK FOR PRELIMINARY DESIGN SIMULATION TOOLBOX—AN APPLICATION OF A MODULE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN EXAMPLE: STRUCTURAL SIZING OF A TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT WING RESULTS OF THE SIMULATION AND SIZING PROCESS LOOPS SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK CHAPTER 5 MULTIDISCIPLINARY WING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION WING MDO FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTURE PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY GENERATION WEIGHT AND BALANCE STRUCTURAL WING-BOX OPTIMIZATION AERODYNAMICS ENGINE SIZING FLIGHT MECHANICS MISSION ANALYSIS CHAPTER 6 META-MODELING AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN AERONAUTIC MDO INTRODUCTION—MDA, MDO, AND MOO IN AERONAUTICS META-MODELING OPTIMIZATION—MDA, MDO, AND MOO IN AERONAUTICS CASE STUDY: MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSONIC WING DESIGN CHAPTER 7 FUSELAGE STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION PRESENTATION OF THE TEST CASE LOCAL OPTIMIZATION INTEGRATION TIGHT COUPLING