Effective adjoint approaches for computational fluid dynamics

GKW Kenway, CA Mader, P He… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2019 - Elsevier
The adjoint method is used for high-fidelity aerodynamic shape optimization and is an
efficient approach for computing the derivatives of a function of interest with respect to a …

A comprehensive review of educational articles on structural and multidisciplinary optimization

C Wang, Z Zhao, M Zhou, O Sigmund… - Structural and …, 2021 - Springer
Ever since the publication of the 99-line topology optimization MATLAB code (top99) by
Sigmund in 2001, educational articles have emerged as a popular category of contributions …

A graph-based methodology for constructing computational models that automates adjoint-based sensitivity analysis

V Gandarillas, AJ Joshy, MZ Sperry, AK Ivanov… - Structural and …, 2024 - Springer
The adjoint method provides an efficient way to compute sensitivities for system models with
a large number of inputs. However, implementing the adjoint method requires significant …

OpenMDAO: An open-source framework for multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization

JS Gray, JT Hwang, JRRA Martins, KT Moore… - Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is concerned with solving design problems
involving coupled numerical models of complex engineering systems. While various MDO …

Bayesian optimization of combinatorial structures

R Baptista, M Poloczek - International conference on …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
The optimization of expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions over combinatorial structures
is an ubiquitous task in machine learning, engineering and the natural sciences. The …

Overview of Gaussian process based multi-fidelity techniques with variable relationship between fidelities, application to aerospace systems

L Brevault, M Balesdent, A Hebbal - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The design process of complex systems such as new configurations of aircraft or launch
vehicles is usually decomposed in different phases which are characterized by the depth of …

A computational architecture for coupling heterogeneous numerical models and computing coupled derivatives

JT Hwang, JRRA Martins - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
One of the challenges in computational modeling is coupling models to solve
multidisciplinary problems. Flow-based computational frameworks alleviate part of the …

Large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization of an evtol aircraft using comprehensive analysis

D Saro**i, ML Ruh, AJ Joshy, J Yan, AK Ivanov… - AIAA SciTech 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0146. vid This paper presents a
framework under development for enabling large-scale multi-fidelity modeling and …

Towards a multi-fidelity & multi-objective Bayesian optimization efficient algorithm

R Charayron, T Lefebvre, N Bartoli, J Morlier - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Black-box optimization methods like Bayesian optimization are often employed in cases
where the underlying objective functions and their gradient are complex, expensive to …

Large-scale multidisciplinary optimization of an electric aircraft for on-demand mobility

JT Hwang, A Ning - 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural …, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
Distributed electric propulsion is a key enabling technology for on-demand electric aircraft
concepts. NASA's X-57 Maxwell X-plane is a demonstrator for this technology, and it …