Recent Research

A selection of posters describing past and present work:

73. Spitfire high-performance computing cluster 

72. Proper orthogonal decomposition & kriging strategies for design 

71. Shape optimisation using CAD linked free form deformations 

70. Options NSGA2 in practice

69. Multi-fidelity global optimization using co-kriging1 

68. Can an aerofoil be defined by six numbers? 

67. Stranger by design 66. Response surface models for design optimisation 

65. An intelligent workflow construction support system for MATLAB 

64. Stochastic reduced basis method for PDEs on random domains 

63. Robust structural design of a simplified jet engine model, using multiobjective optimization 

62. Life cycle cost modeling of UAVs 

61. Stachastic reduced basis methods for uncertainty quantification 

60. Dual-role UAVs - a conceptual design perspective 

59. Multi-objective evolutionary optimisation of a compressor stage 

58. Cost modelling of UAVs 

57. Robust design of gas turbine blades 

56. Cost based multi-objective design optimisation 

55. Integration of Matlab based search engines into iSIGHT and model center 

54. Systematic exploration into the hemodynamic effect of an out-of-plane internal carotid artery 

53. Options and UTP RSM Code Plug-Ins to iSIGHT and Options optimiser plug-in to model center 

52. On multiobjective optimization 

51. Flexible parametric CAD models for web-based low-noise wing design (SIMDAT) 

50. Cost-based methodologies for design optimization 

49. Uncertainty in design 

48. Geodise application: Solving CFD-based shape optimisation problems on the grid 

47. Using RSMs for computationally generated data with noise 

46. Computer aided linear optimisation for broadband noise 

45. Cost modelling and design optimisation 

44. Structural design of military airframes 

43. Combinatorial optimization of welding sequences 

42. Optimisation using intermediate response surface function approximations 

41. Visualization for optimization 

40. Response surface evolution applied to data fusion 

39. Response surface model evolution 

38. Design of experiments 

37. The development of a grid-based engineering design problem solving environment (contd). 

36. The development of a grid-based engineering design problem solving environment 

35. Taxonomy of a design process 

34. Adaptive meta-Lamarckian learning in hybrid genetic algorithms 

33. Nodal based evolutionary structural optimisation 

32. Turbine firtree root design optimisation 

31. Response surface modelling for efficient structural optimisation 

30. Optimisation of a tail bearing housing component 

29. Component based problem solving environments using CORBA 

28. Hybrid evolutionary optimizers in optimal aerofoil design 

27. Nodal based evolutionary structural optimisation (NESO) 

26. Dynamics of disordered periodic systems 

25. ICAD-based turbine blade design optimization 

24. Knowledge base search advisors for deisgn exploration systems 

23. Physical separation and multiphase research group 

22. Short circuit arc behaviour in miniature circuit breakers 

21. Arc erosion of silver alloy contact materials 

20. RECAS 

19. The precision characterisation of 3D form 

18. Progressive failure analysis of laminated composite structures 

17. Effect of particle properties on soil behaviour 

16. Mixed mode simulations of electronic circuits containing silicon and silicon-germanium semiconductor devices 

15. Numerical modelling of interaction between the electric arc and electrodes 

14. Modelling and computation of AC fields and losses in high temperature superconductors 

13. Computational and experimental analysis of a small gap in an integrated electric thruster 

12. Vortex shedding from arbitrary arrangements of cylinders 

11. Parallelisation of the discrete transfer radiation model 

10. Investigations of flow around moving bluff bodies by viscous cell boundary element method

9. GA optimisation of approximate or noisy function representations 

8. Genetic algorithm optimisation of strain gauge load cells 

7. Robust design of active control systems 

6. Vibrations in space - application to satellite truss design 

5. OPTIONS : speed at sea - application to ship design 

4. OPTIONS : design exploration system 

3. Multi-level evolutionary optimisation applied to wing conceptual design 

2. Models of head scattered acoustic fields for virtual acoustic reality

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