Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO)

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Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO)
Goals Create advanced and complex engineering
systems that must be competitive not only in
terms of performance, but also on terms of
manufacturability, serviceability and overall
life-cycle cost effectiveness, coherently
exploiting the synergism of mutually interacting
phenomena.
Industry applications Aircraft design (Boeing
BWB) Spacecraft engineering (Nexus
spacecraft) Automotive industry (Ferrari 360
Spider) Finance (Profits)
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MDO A New Approach of Aircraft Design
MDO, supported by other disciplines Human
Interface Aspects of Design Intelligent and
Knowledge-Based Systems Computing Aspects of
Design Information Integration and Management
Disciplinary analysis
Configuration analysis
DesignVector
Final Design
Designer evaluation
MDO is only one part of the design process
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MDO Current Research

• Towards more flexibility
• Interactive simulation and
• optimization interfaces
• The user has more control over the definition,
  execution and monitoring of the optimization
  process.

• Towards user-oriented results
• Real-time visualization
• The user has a constant notion of the
  optimization steps. MDO is more than a numerical
  tool.