25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-1.11.3

FITTING FITNESS IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN

W. J. Vankan, R. Maas, M. Laban
NLR, Netherlands

Keywords: Multi-disciplinary Design and Optimization, Meta-model, Response surface, Transonic wing, Winglet

This paper presents new results of a study where various advanced approximation techniques are applied in response surface analyses of aircraft multidisciplinary design and optimisation problems. In particular the accuracy of the approximate representation of design objectives and constraints and the effectiveness of the search and optimisation algorithms are considered.

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