Application of alternative multidisciplinary optimization formulations to a model problem for static aeroelasticity (Q1891077)

We applied the multidisciplinary feasible (MDF), individual discipline feasible (IDF), and all-at-once (AAO) formulations for multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) to a simple model for duct flow. This model problem exhibits some of the properties of static aeroelasticity but is radically simpler than realistic MDO problems. For this model, the IDF and AAO formulations reduce computational work by about a factor of 2 -- 5 by postponing feasibility of the analysis problem until optimality is achieved.