Parallel Numerical Airplane Wing Design

A parallel numerical optimization method for the airplane wing design has been established The extension of traditional Evolution Strategies by new and alterna tive methods combined with a load management for parallel processes leads to the MEPO optimization system The concept of the system allows bene cial usage of parallel processing features for running the optimization algorithms as well as the application speci c simulation codes In this way unacceptable turn around times in the design process of airplane wings can be reduced signi cantly The low amount of communications between computer processor units makes it possible to employ workstation clusters e ciently Coupled with simulation codes of DASA and DLR a powerful program system for optimizing airplane wing designs has been created Highly promising results in the calculation of wing shapes for the future Airbus A XX now lead to a commercially usable program