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Nuno M. B. Matos and Andre C. Marta
A coupled aerostructural aircraft design and trajectory optimization framework is developed for the Air Cargo Challenge competition to maximize the expected score based on cargo carried, altitude achieved and distance traveled. Its modular architecture m...
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Biqing Ye, Guixin Yu, Yidong Zhang and Gang Li
Aerostatic bearings are considered crucial components that can improve the measurement accuracy of ground simulation tests of space equipment. A structural optimization design method is proposed to enhance the static performance of aerostatic bearings. A...
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Yue Hu, Zhixiang Fang, Xinyan Zou, Haoyu Zhong and Lubin Wang
Tourism activities essentially represent the interaction between crowds and attractions. Thus, crowd dynamics are critical to the quality of the tourism experience in personalized tour recommendations. In order to generate dynamic, personalized tour rout...
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Yang Liu, Xintong Li, Pengcheng Wang, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Zhu and Guobiao Cai
This paper proposed a multi-objective, multi-disciplinary design optimization and multi-attribute evaluation method for the manned lunar lander descent stage. A system design model is established considering multiple disciplines such as propulsion, struc...
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Di Lan, Kezhen Chen and Zhen Xu
During the design process, architectural layout configuration is subject to complex constraints such as site conditions and design requirements, resulting in limited design efficiency. This research aims to provide architects with an effective design too...
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Yu Lu, Jianping Yuan, Qiaorui Si, Peifeng Ji, Ding Tian and Jinfeng Liu
In previous AUV designs, the thrusters were often placed outside the vehicle, resulting in their performance being significantly influenced by the shape of the vehicle. Additionally, this placement also leads to the generation of strong radiated noise th...
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Jiangnan Zhang and Mehrdad Zangeneh
In this paper, we present the design and optimization of a centrifugal fan with requirements of maximizing the total-to-static pressure rise and total-to-static efficiency at two operating points and the maximum torque provided by the motor power using a...
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Lei Sheng, Weichao Zhao, Ying Zhou, Weimeng Lin, Chunyan Du and Hongwei Lou
An optimization model for the optical imaging system was established in this paper. It combined the modern design of experiments (DOE) method known as Latin hypercube sampling (LHS), Kriging surrogate model training, and the multi-objective optimization ...
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Marika Belardo, Aniello Daniele Marano, Jacopo Beretta, Gianluca Diodati, Mario Graziano, Mariacarmela Capasso, Pierpaolo Ariola, Salvatore Orlando, Francesco Di Caprio, Nicola Paletta and Luigi Di Palma
The main objective of this paper is to describe a methodology to be applied in the preliminary design of a tiltrotor wing based on previously developed conceptual design methods. The reference vehicle is the Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Technology Dem...
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Hao Chen, Weikun Li, Weicheng Cui, Ping Yang and Linke Chen
Biomimetic robotic fish systems have attracted huge attention due to the advantages of flexibility and adaptability. They are typically complex systems that involve many disciplines. The design of robotic fish is a multi-objective multidisciplinary desig...
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Apostolos Papanikolaou, Yan Xing-Kaeding, Johannes Strobel, Aphrodite Kanellopoulou, George Zaraphonitis and Edmund Tolo
The present study focuses on the hydrodynamic hull form optimization of a zero emission, battery driven, fast catamaran vessel. A two-stage optimization procedure was implemented to identify in the first stage (global optimization) the optimum combinatio...
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Shobhit Chaturvedi, Elangovan Rajasekar and Sukumar Natarajan
Operational uncertainties play a critical role in determining potential pathways to reduce the building energy footprint in the Global South. This paper presents the application of a non-dominated sorting genetic (NSGA II) algorithm for multi-objective b...
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Zhixing Li, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese and Yafei Zhao
This paper proposes an optimization process based on a parametric platform for building climate responsive design. Taking residential buildings in six typical American cities as examples, it proposes thermal environment comfort (Discomfort Hour, DH), bui...
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Teresa Donateo, Claudia Lucia De Pascalis and Antonio Ficarella
The interest in electric and hybrid electric power system has been increasing, in recent times, due to the benefits of this technology, such as high power-to-weight ratio, reliability, compactness, quietness, and, above all, elimination of local pollutan...
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Enhanced heat transfer surfaces allow more energy-efficient, compact and lightweight heat exchangers. Within this study, a method for comparing different types of enhancement and different geometries with multiple objectives is developed in order to eval...
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Thomas Fahey, Angus Muffatti and Hideaki Ogawa
The Cusped Field Thruster (CFT) concept has demonstrated significantly improved performance over the Hall Effect Thruster and the Gridded Ion Thruster; however, little is understood about the complexities of the interactions and interdependencies of the ...
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Thomas Fahey, Angus Muffatti and Hideaki Ogawa
The Cusped Field Thruster (CFT) concept has demonstrated significantly improved performance over the Hall Effect Thruster and the Gridded Ion Thruster; however, little is understood about the complexities of the interactions and interdependencies of the ...
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Atthaphon Ariyarit and Masahiro Kanazaki
In this study, efficient global optimization (EGO) with a multi-fidelity hybrid surrogate model for multi-objective optimization is proposed to solve multi-objective real-world design problems. In the proposed approach, a design exploration is carried ou...
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Silvio Rodrigues, Carlos Restrepo, George Katsouris, Rodrigo Teixeira Pinto, Maryam Soleimanzadeh, Peter Bosman and Pavol Bauer
Current offshore wind farms (OWFs) design processes are based on a sequential approach which does not guarantee system optimality because it oversimplifies the problem by discarding important interdependencies between design aspects. This article present...
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Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
This study compares the performance of self-adaptive optimization approaches in efficient water distribution systems (WDS) design and presents a guide for the selection of the appropriate method employing optimization utilizing the characteristic of each...
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