Faster turn-around times for the design and optimization of functional surfaces

Abstract

The design and optimization of functional surfaces on the basis of many simulations, now increasingly called simulation-driven design, leads to excellent products but still demands skill, time and resources. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in simulation-driven design as encountered in the maritime industry and in other disciplines such as turbomachinery and automotive design. It addresses potential solutions how to realize faster turn-around times. Two promising approaches are presented, firstly, the massive reduction of parameters that span the design space and, secondly, the utilization of gradient information as derived from adjoint simulations.