03.4 - Applied Aerodynamics
SURROGATE-BASED OPTIMIZATION METHOD APPLIED TO MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION ARCHITECTURES
C.-Z. Xu¹, Z.-H. Han¹, K.-S. Zhang¹, W.-P. Song¹; ¹Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
This paper proposes to use surrogate-based optimization (SBO) method in conjunction with several monolithic MDO architectures by replacing the conventional gradient-based or gradient-free optimizers. The result shows that SBO can efficiently find the global optimum in different MDO architectures.