Keane, A. J.

Computational approaches for aerospace design : the pursuit of excellence / Andy J. Keane, Prasanth B. Nair. - Chichester, England : John Wiley, c2005. - xx, 582 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Foreword. - Preface. - Acknowledgment. - 1. Preliminaries. 1. Introduction. - 2. Design-oriented analysis. 3. Elements of numerical optimization. - II. Sensitivity analysis and approximation concepts. 4. Sensitivity analysis. 5. General approximation concepts and surrogates. 6. Physics-based approximations. - III. Frameworks for design space exploration. 7. Managing surrogate models in optimization. 8. Design in the presence of uncertainty. 9. Architectures for multidisciplinary optimization. - IV. Case studies. 10. A problem in satellite design. 11. Airfoil section design. 12. Aircraft wing design - data fusion between codes. 13. Turbine blade design (1) - guide-vane SKE control. 14. Turbine blade design (II) - Fir-tree root geometry. 15. Aero-engine nacelle design using the geodise toolkit. 16. Getting the optimization process started. - Bibliography. - Index.

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Aerospace engineering--Data processing.
Aerospace engineering--Mathematics.

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