Coherent design methodology using modelling, simulation and optimisation

  • Authors:
  • Patrick R. Palmer;Arturo Molina-Cristóbal;Geoffrey T. Parks

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 Grand Challenges on Modeling and Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

There is an increasing demand for optimising complete systems and the devices within that system, including capturing the interactions between the various multi-disciplinary (MD) components involved. Furthermore confidence in robust solutions is esential. As a consequence the computational cost rapidly increases and in many cases becomes infeasible to perform such conceptual designs. A coherent design methodology is proposed, where the aim is to improve the design process by effectively exploiting the potential of computational synthesis, search and optimisation and conventional simulation, with a reduction of the computational cost. This optimization framework consists of a hybrid optimization algorithm to handles multi-fidelity simulations. Simultaneously and in order to handles uncertainty without recasting the model and at affordable computational cost, a stochastic modelling method known as non-intrusive polynomial chaos is introduced. The effectiveness of the design methodology is demonstrated with the optimisation of a submarine propulsion system.