Hossein Darabi; Jafar Roshanian
Volume 8, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 27-39
Abstract
Collaborative optimization is one of bi-level multidisciplinary optimization methods which consists of system level and discipline level and is applied for complex engineering problems. since this method is rigidly convergent at discipline level because of noisy constraints at system level on one hand ...
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Collaborative optimization is one of bi-level multidisciplinary optimization methods which consists of system level and discipline level and is applied for complex engineering problems. since this method is rigidly convergent at discipline level because of noisy constraints at system level on one hand and minimizing objective function necessity at system level on the other hand, this optimizationmethod is forced to use evolutionary algorithms in order to minimize objective function at system level, also, It has been proved that, applying this algorithms according to their nature is expensive and time consuming. This paper with performed inspections is a new method for applying innovated optimization algorithms through which considerable results are obtained in solving sample problems. It is shown that using this method will decrease function calls number or problem solving time and therefore calculating costs will decrease considerably. Also it is shown that this method sometimes increase accuracy.
S. M. Hashemi Doulabi; H. Darabi; J. Roshnian
Volume 5, Issue 1 , April 2012, , Pages 61-72
Abstract
One of the most important problems that nowadays are common in aerospace societies in Iran and also around the world is how to optimize the designing of the flight objects. Since the flight objects like LVs, which are the subject of this paper, are composed of several subsystems that have influences ...
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One of the most important problems that nowadays are common in aerospace societies in Iran and also around the world is how to optimize the designing of the flight objects. Since the flight objects like LVs, which are the subject of this paper, are composed of several subsystems that have influences to each others, the multidisciplinary design optimization methods(MDO) are commonly used for doing design optimization of them. In usage of the multidisciplinary design optimization methods for different objects, to select the proper optimization algorithm is one of the very important problems. In this research the conceptual design of a lightweight liquid propellant LV is done with the all at once (AAO) method. The object of optimization is to minimize gross launch weight and four disciplines of structure, aerodynamics, trajectory, and propulsion are considered. Performance of gradient based algorithm of SQP and heuristic algorithm of GA and traditional method (statistical method) by solving an example are compared and is shown that if the output of statistical method is used as start point of optimization using gradient based algorithm of SQP, the global answer will be derived.
