26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-1.1.1

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND OPTIMIZATION TOOL DEVELOPMENT USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

C.-G. Pak, W. Li
NASA, USA

Keywords: flutter, genetic algorithm, MDO, multidisciplinary, optimization

MDAO tool using genetic algorithm is developed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to automate the process and leverage existing tools such as MSC/ NASTRAN, ZAERO and CFL3D Navier-Stokes solver and to enable true multidisciplinary optimization in the preliminary design stage of a subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircrafts.

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