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Seminar «Design optimization in aerospace engineering: methods and applications»

Prof Toropov Vassili
January 27, 2014
12.00 – 13.30
Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster (Skolkovo School of Management)

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:
The following features of hard industrial design optimization problems are not yet adequately addressed by the currently available optimization techniques:
• Large scale (~1000 design variables) optimization problems with expensive (several hours) response function evaluation
• Discrete optimization with even moderately expensive response functions
• Optimization with non-deterministic inputs and responses
• Issues of numerical noise and simulation failures
• Multidisciplinary optimization that includes some or all of the features above.

The presentation will discuss recent progress made by the presenter’s team towards addressing these issues with examples of recent industrial applications that include
• Topology optimization for preliminary design of a lattice composite fuselage
• Optimization of composite wing panels
• Turbomachinery applications
• Optimization and stochastic analysis of a landing system for the European Space Agency ExoMars mission.
SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:
Vassili Toropov, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, is a leader of the Aerospace Engineering programme and the Modelling and Simulation Research Centre at Queen Mary, University of London in the UK. Before that he was leading the Aerospace programme at the University of Leeds for seven years and spent three years at Altair Engineering being engaged in development of techniques and software for metamodelling, design optimization and stochastic analysis as well as applying his expertise to industrial problems for aerospace, automotive, offshore and other industries. Prior to that he had an academic career with appointments in Russia, Denmark, The Netherlands, Japan and for the last 21 years in the UK.

Prof Toropov has published over 250 research papers and his interests include development of techniques for metamodelling, stochastic problems, evolutionary optimization, composite optimization, industrial applications.

His recent and current research projects are funded by Rolls-Royce, Airbus, EADS Innovation Works, Parker Hannifin, Jaguar Land Rover and the European Commission ranging from optimization of aerospace structures to optimum flow and thermal management.

Vassili is a chartered aerospace engineer, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Chairman of the Association for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization in the UK; Executive Committee member of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, a member of the AIAA Multidisciplinary Optimization and Non-Deterministic Approaches Technical Committees and a co-editor of the Springer’s Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization journal.

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