Multi-Disciplinary Optimization System for Link Mechanism Design.

Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization for Large-scale Reverse Osmosis Systems

Large-scale desalination plants are complex systems with many inter-disciplinary interactions and different levels of subsystem hierarchy. Advanced complex systems design tools have been shown to have a positive impact on design in aerospace and automotive, but have generally not been used in the design of water systems. This work presents a multi-disciplinary design optimization approach to de...

System architecture selection in a multi - disciplinary system design optimization framework

In today's automotive business environment, responsibility for module and sub-system design and development is increasingly driven into the supply chain. Simultaneously, the pressure to reduce product cost is maintained if not increased. The engineering organizations of the higher tier suppliers are saddled with the task of managing a product development portfolio ranging from largely mature pr...

Virtual Mission Systems for Multi-Disciplinary Engineering System Design

To ensure the science return while minimizing the cost and risk of a mission, a lifecyclewide concurrent engineering design process must be established. This paper describes the Virtual Mission Operation Framework (VMOF), which provides distributed modeling, simulation, and visualization services. The goal of the VMOF is to enable concurrent design of a mission system and operation of that syst...

Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization Strategy in Multi-stage Launch Vehicle Conceptual Design

Methodology Discovery for Multi-disciplinary Design Problems

By design methodology we mean a specific scheme for organizing reasoning steps and domain knowledge to construct a solution for a particular problem in a particular domain. We are not referring to a general-purpose methodology for design. It provides both a conceptual framework for organizing design knowledge and a strategy for applying that knowledge [Sobolewski 1996]. It can provide the knowl...