ERCOFTAC

Introductory Course to

Design Optimisation

Trieste, Italy

April 18th – April 20th, 2007

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ERCOFTAC

Introductory Course to

Design Optimisation

Università degli Studi di Trieste

Left wing, 3rd floor, Main Lecture Hall

Piazzale Europa 1

Trieste, Italy

April 18th – April 20th, 2007

Programme

Wednesday, 18th April, 2007

13:00 – 13:10

Welcome address

R. Camus , University of Trieste

13:10 – 13:50

Introduction to Design Optimisation

C. Poloni

13:50 – 14:30

Expectations from a novice user – an aeronautics point of view

W. Haase, EADS-M

14:30 – 15:10

Shape optimisation in aerodynamics: multi-level parametric approaches

J-A. Desideri, INRIA

15:10 – 15:50

Multipoint optimisation of industrial turbo-machinery configurations

A. Ligout, NUMECA

15:50 16:20

Coffee

16:20 – 17:00

Integrated multidisciplinary- multipoint optimisation

R. Van den Braembussche, von Karman Insitute

17:00 – 17:40

Evolutionary strategy

S. Poles, ESTECO

20:00

Social Event

Thursday, 19th April, 2007

09:00 – 09:40

Design of experiments

V. Toropov, University of Leeds

09:40 – 10:20

Genetic Algorithms

V. Toropov, University of Leeds

10:20 – 10:50

Coffee

10:50 – 11:30

Gradient based methods

S. Poles, ESTECO

11:30 – 12:10

Adjoint methods

N. Gauger, DLR

12:10 – 13:40

Lunch

13:40 – 14:20

Automatic Differentiation of programs and its applications in Scientific Computing

L. Hascoet, INRIA

14:20 – 15:00

Hierarchical, Distributed Metamodel-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms

K. Giannakoglou, NTUA

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee

15:30 – 16:10

Evolutionary tools in aerodynamics using Game Strategies and Hierarchy: from theory to applications

J. Périaux, iCAT Consulting

16:10 – 16:50

MCDM – Multiple Criteria Decision Making

V. Pediroda, University of Trieste

16:50 – 17:30

Introduction to Sensitivity Analysis

S.Poles, ESTECO

17:30 – 18:10

Robust design optimisation

V. Pediroda, University of Trieste

20:00

Social Event

Friday, 20th April, 2007

Short Presentations of Commercial Software Tools and
On-line/Hands-on training with prepared test cases

09:00 – 09:15

modeFRONTIER

ESTECO

09:15 – 09:30

iSight

Engineous Software Ltd.

09:30 – 09:45

Fine/Design3d

NUMECA

09:45 - 10:00

Optistruct / Hyperstudy

Altair

10:00 – 10:15

EASY

NTUA

10:15 – 10:30

NAG Ltd.

10:30 – 10:45

Optimus

Noesis

10:45 – 11:00

Simtech

11:00 – 13:00

On-line training

13:00 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 16:15

On-line training

16:15 – 16:20

Closing

C. Poloni, University of Trieste

Special Interest Group Committee:

N. Adams (chair) (Technische Universität München, Germany)

R. van den Braembussche (von Karman Institute, Belgium)

K.C. Giannakoglou (National Technical University Athens, Greece)

W. Haase (EADS-MAS, Germany)

F. Menter (AEA Technology, Germany)

J. Periaux (Dassault, Pole Scientifique, France)

C. Poloni (University of Trieste, Italy)

G. Winter (IUSIANI/ULPGC, Spain)