A computational design tool was developed to perform a constrained optimization of the acoustic environment within a vibrating cylinder, incorporating finite element and boundary element methods, The tool comprises a ...
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A computational design tool was developed to perform a constrained optimization of the acoustic environment within a vibrating cylinder, incorporating finite element and boundary element methods, The tool comprises a UNIX shell script that coordinates an iterative design optimization process integrating a number of programs, the key components of which are MSC/NASTRAN for structural analyses, COMET/Acoustics for acoustic analyses, and CONMIN for nonlinear optimization. In addition to the structure and implementation of the tool, this paper presents the results of a number of trials of the tool applied to stiffened and unstiffened cylinders, considering different formulations of the objective function to be optimized, and for a constant frequency exterior monopole excitation. Models were constructed to investigate longitudinal vs circumferential variations in design properties as well. The results indicate that shell thickness variations tend to dominate interior acoustic response, as compared with stiffener variations. The results further indicate that longitudinal variation is more effective than circumferential variation. Effective longitudinal design variations include shell thickening toward the cylinder midplane or, equally effective, thinning toward the midplane, Effective circumferential designs exhibited periodic variation around the circumference.
We discuss an application of self-similarity to structural systems from the view point of optimal design, A general recursive formulation that describes the state of a self-similar structure is provided. On the basis ...
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We discuss an application of self-similarity to structural systems from the view point of optimal design, A general recursive formulation that describes the state of a self-similar structure is provided. On the basis of the formulation, it is also shown that the optimization process can be formulated in a similar recursive manner. In this study the resource-based approach is adopted as the optimal design procedure;it is implemented based on the proposed recursive formulation, Minimum weight design of two-dimensional truss structures is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The computational cost and the storage requirement are evaluated;the efficiency of the proposed recursive approach and suitability to the parallel computation are also discussed.
This paper presents the idea ofa* optimization algorithm of adaptive wavelets that can improve the coding algorithm to decrease the computation complexity to ten percent of that presented in the paper[5]. The full optim...
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(纸本)7505338900
This paper presents the idea ofa* optimization algorithm of adaptive wavelets that can improve the coding algorithm to decrease the computation complexity to ten percent of that presented in the paper[5]. The full optimization of adaptive wavelets is replaced by the new method, in which the optimization is divided into two cascaded steps. And the entropy-coding-based quantization of side information is adopted so that tile bit rate is significantly reduced because it accounts for a plenty of percent of bit costs. The bit rate can decrease about 15 percent of that presented ill paper [8] by taking the method. It also coordinates with psycho-acoustics model and dynamic bits allocation scheme to make the coding noise inaudible under the condition of the least bits cost.
Presents information on a study of aerospace engineering which provides a neural network parameter extraction to analyze flutter signals. Methodology of the study; Results and conclusions of the study.
Presents information on a study of aerospace engineering which provides a neural network parameter extraction to analyze flutter signals. Methodology of the study; Results and conclusions of the study.
Automatic differentiation (AD) is a methodology for developing reliable sensitivity-enhanced versions of arbitrary computer programs with little human effort. As such, it can vastly accelerate the use of advanced simu...
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Automatic differentiation (AD) is a methodology for developing reliable sensitivity-enhanced versions of arbitrary computer programs with little human effort. As such, it can vastly accelerate the use of advanced simulation codes in a multidisciplinary design optimization context because the time for generating and verifying derivative codes is greatly reduced. The application of the recently developed automatic differentiation of C programs (ADIC) prototype tool for ANSI-C programs on the coordinate and sensitivity calculator for multidisciplinary design optimization multiblock three-dimensional volume grid generator are reported. The ADIC-generated code can easily be interfaced with Fortran derivative codes generated with the ADIFOR AD tool for Fortran 77 programs;thus providing efficient sensitivity-enhancement techniques for multilanguage, multidiscipline problems.
A novel approach for thin film thickness and optical constant extraction from spectral reflectance data is presented here. This methodology combines the global minimization abilities of Adaptive Simulated Annealing wi...
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(纸本)0819427144
A novel approach for thin film thickness and optical constant extraction from spectral reflectance data is presented here. This methodology combines the global minimization abilities of Adaptive Simulated Annealing with the high computational efficiency of Neural Networks to solve complex characterization problems in real time. The optical constants of many thin films such as Polysilicon are a function of the processing conditions and hence the real time measurement of these parameters could possibly be used in real time or run to run process control applications.
Compares threea* optimization algorithms and evaluates their performance when applied to airfoil design. Gradient-based method; Simulated annealing; Genetic algorithm; Airfoild design using approximation method.
Compares threea* optimization algorithms and evaluates their performance when applied to airfoil design. Gradient-based method; Simulated annealing; Genetic algorithm; Airfoild design using approximation method.
A new approach is presented to solve periodic optimal control problems, As an application of the approach, fuel-optimal periodic control problems for a hypersonic vehicle are solved. The model of the vehicle was const...
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A new approach is presented to solve periodic optimal control problems, As an application of the approach, fuel-optimal periodic control problems for a hypersonic vehicle are solved. The model of the vehicle was constructed by using numerical data and figures from available space plane literature. In particular, heating-rate and load-factor constraints are considered to make this model more realistic than other previous models. These constraints increase the difficulty in obtaining a numerical solution and also increase the sensitivity to the initial guess for convergence. By assuming the shape of an altitude profile as a sinusoidal function of range and by using a bang-bang thrust control, a suboptimal solution is obtained for the vehicle without any constraints. This suboptimal solution serves as a very good initial guess for the optimal solution generated by the minimizing-boundary-condition method. The optimal solution shows a fuel saving of 8.12 % over the steady-state cruise, with a maximum heating rate of 1202.4 W/cm(2), and with a maximum load factor of 8.27. Constraints for a heating rate and a load factor are then added to the problem. With a maximum heating rate of 400 W/cm(2), the fuel saving reduces to 2.45%. With a load factor of 7, the fuel saving does not change much from the nonconstrained solution, An optimal periodic-cruise solution with maximum heating rate of 1158.0 W/cm(2) and simultaneously with maximum load factor of 7 is also determined with a fuel saving of 8.09%.
A theoretical analysis of the time-constrained cruise optimization problem shows that existing solutions are based on two main assumptions. The first is to consider that the optimal speed profile can be approximated b...
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A theoretical analysis of the time-constrained cruise optimization problem shows that existing solutions are based on two main assumptions. The first is to consider that the optimal speed profile can be approximated by the constant-cost-index (CI)-speed profile. The second is to consider that the altitude profile is frozen when a time constraint is introduced. A dynamic-programming-based approach shows that the optimization of the altitude-shift points can lead to additional fuel savings of several percent for particular time constaints. The constant-CI assumption is argued to be valid because the speed profiles generated by both approaches on identical altitude profiles lead to simlar total fuel burn. (AIAA)
While direct control allocation constitutes a powerful approach to the solution of three-moment multiple-control problems, it is here shown that it can be straightforwardly modified to account for a larger, four-objec...
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While direct control allocation constitutes a powerful approach to the solution of three-moment multiple-control problems, it is here shown that it can be straightforwardly modified to account for a larger, four-objective multiple control problem. Drag is considered as the fourth objective, which the allocation was instructed to minimize. The application was a fully nonlinear F-18 simulation. (AIAA)
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