MDO for Aerospace Applications

The course will introduce students to multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), as a modern methodology to support complex product development.

Main topics:

- What and why MDO

- Parameterization techniques

- Numerical optimisation methods (focus on gradient based methods)

- Decomposition and coordination of complex computational systems

- the eXtended Design Structure Matrix (XDSM)

- MDO architectures

- Intro to surrogate modeling, discreteenmixed integer problems, genetic

algorithms and Multi Objective Optimisation