TY - BOOK AU - Keane,A.J. AU - Nair,P.B. TI - Computational approaches for aerospace design: the pursuit of excellence SN - 0470855401 (hbk.) U1 - 629.10285 PY - 2005/// CY - Chichester, England PB - John Wiley KW - Aerospace engineering KW - Data processing KW - Mathematics N1 - 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 ER -