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2-D Robust Design Optimization on Unstructured Meshes

  • Lee Sang Wook;Kwon Oh Joon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.240-242
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    • 2003
  • A method for performing two-dimensional lift-constraint drag minimization in inviscid compressible flows on unstructured meshes is developed. Sensitivities of objective function with respect to the design variables are efficiently obtained by using a continuous adjoint method. In addition, parallel algorithm is used in multi-point design optimization to enhance the computational efficiency. The characteristics of single-point and multi-point optimization are examined, and the comparison of these two method is presented.

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The Correlation of Lower Flash Point data with Activity Coefficient Models

  • Ha, Dong-Myeong;Lee, Sungjin
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2011
  • Two popular activity coefficient models, Wilson and NRTL equations have been used to correlate the published flash point data on the n-propanol + propionic acid and n-butanol + propionic acid systems through the optimization method. The results of these correlation were compared with the results calculated by Raoult's law. The optimization method were found to be better than those based on the Raoult's law. The optimization method based on the Wilson equation described the published data more effectively than was the case when the optimization method was based upon the NRTL equation.

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Efficient Mechanical System Optimization Using Two-Point Diagonal Quadratic Approximation in the Nonlinear Intervening Variable Space

  • Park, Dong-Hoon;Kim, Min-Soo;Kim, Jong-Rip;Jeon, Jae-Young
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.1257-1267
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    • 2001
  • For efficient mechanical system optimization, a new two-point approximation method is presented. Unlike the conventional two-point approximation methods such as TPEA, TANA, TANA-1, TANA-2 and TANA-3, this introduces the shifting level into each exponential intervening variable to avoid the lack of definition of the conventional exponential intervening variables due to zero-or negative-valued design variables. Then a new quadratic approximation whose Hessian matrix has only diagonal elements of different values is proposed in terms of these shifted exponential intervening variables. These diagonal elements are determined in a closed form that corrects the typical error in the approximate gradient of the TANA series due to the lack of definition of exponential type intervening variables and their incomplete second-order terms. Also, a correction coefficient is multiplied to the pre-determined quadratic term to match the value of approximate function with that of the previous point. Finally, in order to show the numerical performance of the proposed method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and applied to solve six typical design problems. These optimization results are compared with those of TANA-3. These comparisons show that the proposed method gives more efficient and reliable results than TANA-3.

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Fuzzy-Enforced Complementarity Constraints in Nonlinear Interior Point Method-Based Optimization

  • Song, Hwachang
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.171-177
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents a fuzzy set method to enforce complementarity constraints (CCs) in a nonlinear interior point method (NIPM)-based optimization. NIPM is a Newton-type approach to nonlinear programming problems, but it adopts log-barrier functions to deal with the obstacle of managing inequality constraints. The fuzzy-enforcement method has been implemented for CCs, which can be incorporated in optimization problems for real-world applications. In this paper, numerical simulations that apply this method to power system optimal power flow problems are included.

Optimization for High Efficiency of Point Contact Solar Cell (후면전극형 태양전지의 고효율화를 위한 최적화 연구)

  • Ahn, Byoung-Sub;Kang, Ey-Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2011
  • This paper was carried about optimization for high efficiency of point contact solar cell. We have studied on the characteristics of power converter according to each parameter for the optimization for high efficiency of point contact solar cell on this study. We have 25.1352% of convert efficiency after adapt optimal parameters as mentioned in point body and superior conclusion is drawn by comparison with general efficiency has within 20%. At this time, the value of parameter is 100 um cell pitch, 0.01 um AR coating, 0.9 um N+ FSF thickness., etc. This study will continue to go on for optimization for efficiency in future, as it looks now, the results of this study would contribute to the business of high efficiency of point contact solar cell.

A STUDY ABOUT MULTI-POINT RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF FLEXIBLE WING (신뢰성을 고려한 유연 날개의 다점 최적 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim S.W.;Lee J.H.;Kwon J.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2005
  • For the efficient reliability analysis, Bi-direction two-point approximation(BTPA) method is developed which solves shortcomings of conventional two-point approximation(TPA) methods that generate an approximate surface with low accuracy or sometimes do an unstable approximate surface. The conventional reliability based design optimization(RBDO) methods require high computational cost compared with the deterministic design optimization(DO) methods. To overcome the computational inefficiency of RBDO, the approximate reliability analysis approaches on the TPA surface are proposed. Using these FORM and SORM analysis strategies, multi-point aerodynamic-structure interacted shape design optimizations with uncertainty are performed very efficiently.

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Design Optimization Using the Two-Point Convex Approximation (이점 볼록 근사화 기법을 적용한 최적설계)

  • Kim, Jong-Rip;Choi, Dong-Hoon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.1041-1049
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, a new local two-point approximation method which is based on the exponential intervening variable is proposed. This new algorithm, called the Two-Point Convex Approximation(TPCA), use the function and design sensitivity information from the current and previous design points of the sequential approximate optimization to generate a sequence of convex, separable subproblems. This paper describes the derivation of the parameters associated with the approximation and the numerical solution procedure. In order to show the numerical performance of the proposed method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and applied to solve several typical design problems. These optimization results are compared with those of other optimizers. Numerical results obtained from the test examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

The Prediction of Lower Flash Points by Optimization Method

  • Ha, Dong-Myeong;Lee, Sung-Jin
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2009
  • The flash point is the most widely used flammability property for the evaluation of the flammability hazard of combustible liquid mixtures. In this paper, the reported flash points for the the binary systems, ethylbenzene+n-butanol and ethylbenzene+n-hexanol were correlated by the optimization method. The optimization method based on the van Laar and Wilson equations were compared with the Raoult's law. The calculated values based on the optimization method were found to be better than those based on the Raoult's law.

Optimal locations of point supports in laminated rectangular plates for maximum fundamental frequency

  • Wang, C.M.;Xiang, Y.;Kitipornchai, S.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.691-703
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    • 1997
  • This paper investigates the optimal locations of internal point supports in a symmetric crossply laminated rectangular plate for maximum fundamental frequency of vibration. The method used for solving this optimization problem involves the Rayleigh-Ritz method for the vibration analysis and the simplex method of Nelder and Mead for the iterative search of the optimum support locations. Being a continuum method, the Rayleigh-Ritz method allows easy handling of the changing point support locations during the optimization search. Rectangular plates of various boundary conditions, aspect ratios, composed of different numbers of layers, and with one, two and three internal point supports are analysed. The interesting results on the optimal locations of the point supports showed that (a) there are multiple solutions; (b) the locations are dependent on both the plate aspect ratios and the number of layers (c) the fundamental frequency may be raised significantly with appropriate positioning of the point supports.