Automated Design and Optimization

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Automated Design and Optimization

• Goal
• Demonstrate automated multidisciplinary design
  and optimization of a turbine blade
• Approach Modular Geometry Centric
• Modular
• CAPRI (Computational Analysis PRogramming
  Interface) is hub of design suite
• Subsystem modules (CAD system, Mesher, Flow
  Solver) interface directly with CAPRI
• Subsystems may be replaced by other CAPRI
  compatible modules without affecting other
  subsystems
• Geometry Centric
• Modules receive standardized tessellation
  generated by CAPRI
• All geometry construction and modification
  performed using CAD kernel
• Optimized design passed back to CAD system for
  easy manufacturing

Keith Dalbey Research Advisor Bob Haimes.
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Automated Design and Optimization
Block diagram of design suite
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Automated Design and Optimization
Discretizationof turbine blade geometry
CFD grid Grid for the structured flow solver WIND
This grid was generated from the CAPRI
tessellation
CAPRI tessellation Representative of
geometry,but not necessarily suitablefor
computation