24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-1.4.R.2

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AIRCRAFT DESIGN OPTIMIZATION USING PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES

C. Peebles, C. Bil
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.

Keywords: aerospace engineering, design optimisation, parallel computing, message-passing

ADAS (Aircraft Design and Analysis Software) is a FORTRAN package that allows designers to optimise design systems consisting of numerous often-conflicting design variables, subject to given constraints and a merit function. While created with the principal aim of aircraft design applications, the software can be utilised for any scenario of multi-disciplinary optimisation. ADAS also executes in a number of modes, supplying the user with ranges of outputs that can be beneficial during many stages in the design process.

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