Engineering Design Via Surrogate Modelling: A Practical Guide: 226 (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics) - Hardcover

Alexander I. J. Forrester (author), Andras Sobester (author) & A.J. Keane (author)

9781563479557: Engineering Design Via Surrogate Modelling: A Practical Guide: 226 (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563479559 ISBN 13: 9781563479557

Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2008

Surrogate models expedite the search for promising designs by standing in for expensive design evaluations or simulations. They provide a global model of some metric of a design (such as weight, aerodynamic drag, cost, etc.), which can then be optimized efficiently. Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling is a self-contained guide to surrogate models and their use in engineering design. The fundamentals of building, selecting, validating, searching and refining a surrogate are presented in a manner accessible to novices in the field. Figures are used liberally to explain the key concepts and clearly show the differences between the various techniques, as well as to emphasize the intuitive nature of the conceptual and mathematical reasoning behind them.
More advanced and recent concepts are each presented in stand-alone chapters, allowing readers to concentrate on material pertinent to their current design problems, and concepts are clearly demonstrated using simple design problems. This collection of advanced concepts (visualization, constraint handling, coping with noisy data, gradient-enhanced modelling, multi-fidelity analysis and multiple objectives) represents an invaluable reference manual for engineers and researchers active in the area.

Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling is complemented by a suite of MATLAB� codes, allowing readers to apply all the techniques presented to their own design problems. By applying statistical modelling to engineering design, this book bridges the gap between the engineering and statistics communities. It will appeal to postgraduates and researchers across the academic engineering design community as well as to practicing design engineers.

Provides an inclusive and practical guide to using surrogates in engineering design.
Presents the fundamentals of building, selecting, validating, searching and refining a surrogate model.
Guides the reader through the practical implementation of a surrogate-based design process using a set of case studies from real engineering design challenges.

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About the Author:

Dr. Alexander I. J. Forrester is Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Southampton. His main area of research focuses on improving the efficiency with which expensive analysis (particularly computational fluid dynamics) is used in design. Dr. Andras Sobester is an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton. Professor Andy J. Keane holds the Chair of Computational Engineering at the University of Southampton and leads its Computational Engineering and Design Research Group.

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