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• MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
• A Paradigm Shift in Design Methodology
• for Complex Engineering Systems

Prof. P.M.Mujumdar Dept. of Aerospace
Engineering, IIT Bombay
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ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

• Decision is objective and not subjective
• Forces a mathematical statement of the problem
• Forces modeling system performance goodness
  criteria
• Captures knowledge - What was the problem solved,
  how was it analyzed, how were the decisions
  taken, . . .

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ISSUES IN POSING THE PROBLEM

• Of all variables that influence the design
• which to pick as design variables? x ? X
• Of all functions that determine system
  behaviour
• which one to choose as objectives? f ? F
• How to confirm that all constraints are
  specified ?
• How to evaluate f, g, h ?
• How to handle coupled multi-disciplinary
  (iterative) analysis

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HIERARCHICAL STEPS IN TRADITIONAL DESIGN

• General arrangement and performance
• Representative Configurations
• General internal layout

Mission Requirements
Conceptual Design
Conceptual Baselines

• Optimization
• Parametric
• 1st level analysis

• Systems Specifications
• Detailed Subsystems
• Internal Arrangements
• Process Design

Preliminary Design
Selected Baseline

• Sophisticated analysis
• Problem Decomposition
• Disciplinary Optimization

Detailed Design
Production Baseline
Production and Support

• May lead to Sub-optimal designs

Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

• Short Conception phase unequal distribution of
  disciplines
• limited scope for optimization assessing
  impact of inter-disciplinary
• couplings.
• Correction of later problems
• Costly/ Lost Time/ Futile
• Solutions limited to specific discipline

Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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LEVERAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Ballistic Missile System
Life cycle cost effectively rendered unchangeable
for a given design
Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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THE DESIGN PROCESS PARADIGM SHIFT
Design process reorganized to gain information
earlier and to retain design freedom longer

• More up-front design
• More evenly distributed efforts of disciplines
  in early design
• Alleviate paradox
• Design decisions/trade-off reordered

Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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CONCURRENT ENGINEERING CONCEPT IN PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
M D O
Aerospace systems design emphasis
Aerodynamics
Propulsion
Structures
Controls
Time into the process

• Ultimate objective - Balanced design by full and
  formal multi-disciplinary
  integration and optimization concurrently in
  all disciplines

Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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MDO ?

• Multi-disciplinary More than one discipline
  plays a role. Eg. In aerospace -aerodynamics,
  structures, controls, mission, . . .
• Design Process of translating requirements into
  detailed product specifications.
• Optimization Formal mathematical process of
  locating the best under constraints

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What is MDO? Some popular definitions of
Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO)

• A methodology for the optimal design of complex
  engineering systems and subsystems that
  coherently exploits the synergism of mutually
  interacting phenomena using high
• fidelity analysis with formal optimization
• MDO is a methodology that combines analysis and
  Optimisation in individual disciplines with those
  of the entire system.
• "How to decide what to change, and to what extent
  to change it, when everything influences
  everything else."

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HAS MDO BEEN AROUND?
Improvement in Aerodynamics siphoned off for
other system level benefits MDO in action
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CONVENTIONAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION V/S MDO

• Conventional Aerospace Design Practice
• Heirarchichal
• Dependence on Parameter trends and trade-off
  studies
• Independent disciplinary design System level
  reviews
• Optimization limited to disciplines
• Resolution of interdisciplinary conflicts
  non-automated
• Relying heavily on previous experience
• Overall more heuristic, than formal
  mathematical optimization

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CONVENTIONAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION V/S MDO

• Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization
• Low fidelity models gt Conceptual design??
• Tightly coupled inter-disciplinary codes. (Close
  knit group) ??
• All or most of the following,
• Largely automated within a formal framework
• Formal mathematical methods and high fidelity
  computations indispensable
• Interdisciplinary couplings formally
  modeled/retained
• Design freedom to significantly affect system
  performance in multiple disciplines
  simultaneously
• Disciplinary authority. Parallel execution.

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CONVENTIONAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION V/S MDO

• Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (contd.)
• Special architectures for problem formulation/
  decomposition
• System level objectives, constraints, variables
• Disciplinary (local) constraints, variables
• Coupling variables and constraints
• System level and discipline level optimizations
• Human expertise judgement given due weightage

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MDO CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
MD Optimization
Design-Oriented MD Analysis
Information Science Technology
Optimization Problem Formulation
Mathematical Modeling
Software Integration
Data S/W Standards
Decomposition
Cost v/s Accuracy Trade-off
Smart Reanalysis
Data Management, Storage Visualization
Interdisciplinary Feasibility
S/W Engineering Practices
Approximations
Design Space Search
Human Interface
Sensitivity Analysis
Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1991
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CHALLENGES IN MDO IMPLEMENTATION

• Information Science Technology
• Computational resources (CPU, memory, disk
  space)
• Distributed parallel processing
• Common parametric geometric model
• Software support
• integration of proprietary, legacy, commercial
  research
• codes
• configuration control and data management
• collaborative work environment, person
  person/machine
• Human expertise/experience capture

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CHALLENGES IN MDO IMPLEMENTATION

• Multidisciplinary Analysis
• Well posed interfaces for disciplines
• Automated grid generation for CFD, FEM
• Discipline and MD sensitivities
• Mathematical modeling of LC disciplines
• Cost run-time of high fidelity analysis
• MD Optimization
• Problem definition ( design variables,
  objective, constraints)
• MDO architechtures
• Design Space Search

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OPTIMIZATION ISSUES IN MDO

• Single level monolithic optimization
  (conventional)
• Decomposition
• Decomposed Analysis
• System level optimization
• Parallel disciplinary analysis
• Decomposed optimization
• Multi-level (system and subspace) optimization
• Parallel disciplinary analysis
• Hierarchical/ Non-hierarchical
• System sensitivity analysis (disciplinary,
  global)
• Design oriented analysis
• Approximation concepts, Variable fidelity, RSM
• Improved optimization algorithms
• Large number of design variables constraints
• Gradient vs Non-gradient

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OPTIMISATION ISSUES IN MDO

• Which optimisation algorithm to use?
• Gradient based? How to generate gradients?
• Direct Search/Evolutionary? Too many function
  evaluations?
• Evaluation of gradients?
• Requirements on convergence will be more
  severe
• than that required for engineering analysis.
• Noisy functions?

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MDO GROWTH OVER THE YEARS
1999
Second Special Issue of Journal of Aircraft
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MDO STATUS AT A GLANCE

• Generalized MDO environment far from reach

• Most common applications
• One discipline (structures) with other
  discipline constraints
• Simultaneous aerodynamic and structural
  optimization
• Wings
• Aircraft configurations (HSCT, BWB)
• Rotor blades
• Simultaneous structures, aerodynamics and
  control optimization
• Coupling of preliminary design with mission and
  performance
• optimization catching up
• Trajectory optimization in Space vehicles
• Disciplines - propulsion, trajectory analysis,
  weights, sizing

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MDO STATUS AT A GLANCE

• MDO Elements
• Decomposition, Approximations, Sensitivity
  Analysis well researched but not matured to
  industry requirements
• Other issues ??

• Recent Trends - Generic MDO Technologies (NASA,
  EC )
• Distributed heterogeneous environment
• Problem specification and setup, decision support
  systems
• Generic software framework for MDO
• Multi-objective design optimization
• MADIC, FRONTIER, FIDO, ISIGHT, USMADE
• IPPD system for aircraft design (ASDL, GIT
  Atlanta)
• Knowledge Based Engineering (Boeing)
• MDO in preliminary design focused on
  aero-elasticity with FEM, CFD

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SUMMARY OF INDUSTRY MDO APPLICATIONS
Source AIAA MDO White Paper, 1998
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MDO_at_CASDE OVER THE YEARS

• Aug 1999 - CASDE asked to spur initiatives in
  MDO
• Aug 2000 - First meeting of SIG-MDO
• Jan 2001 - Professional Development Course on
  MDO
• Jun 2002 - Second meeting of SIG-MDO, Workshop
• on MDO
• Mar 2003 - Third Meeting of SIG-MDO
• Sep 2003 - International Conference on MDO