An objective of the High Performance Computing and Communication Program at the NASA Langley Research Center is to demonstrate multidisciplinary shape and sizing optimization of a complete aerospace vehicle configuration by using high-fidelity, finite element structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics aerodynamic analysis in a distributed, heterogeneous computing environment that includes high performance parallel computing. A software system has been designed and implemented to integrate a set of existing discipline analysis codes, some of them computationally intensive, into a distributed computational environment for the design of a highspeed civil transport configuration. The paper describes the engineering aspects of formulating the optimization by integrating these analysis codes and associated interface codes into the system. The discipline codes are integrated by using the Java programming language and a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant software product. A companion paper presents currently available results.
Multidisciplinary High-Fidelity Analysis and Optimization of Aerospace Vehicles
Aerospace Sciences ; 2000 ; Reno, NV, United States
2000-01-01
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Multidisciplinary High-Fidelity Analysis and Optimization of Aerospace Vehicles, Part 1: Formulation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000
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