학술논문

A New Decomposition Method for Parallel Processing Multi- Level Optimization
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. 2002-05 16(5):609-618
Subject
Language
Korean
ISSN
1738-494X
1976-3824
Abstract
In practical designs, most of the multidisciplinary problems have a large-size and complicate design system. Since multidisciplinary problems have hundreds of analyses and thousands of variables, the grouping of analyses and the order of the analyses in the group affect the speed of the total design cycle. Therefore, it is very important to reorder and regroup the original design processes in order to minimize the total computational cost by decomposing large multidisciplinary problems into several multidisciplinary analysis subsystems (MDASS) and by processing them in parallel. In this study, a new decomposition method is proposed for parallel processing of multidisciplinary design optimization, such as collaborative optimization (CO) and individual discipline feasible (IDF) method. Numerical results for two example problems are presented to show the feasibility of the proposed method.