General-purpose optimization engine for multi-disciplinary design applications

6th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1558-1567

  Hopkins, D A ^a   Patnaik, S N ^a,b   Berke, L ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AIR ENGINES; ENGINES; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MACHINE DESIGN; NASA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NOZZLE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE STATIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT; TURBOFAN ENGINES;

AIR BREATHING ENGINES; AIR BREATHING PROPULSIONS; CONFIGURATION DESIGNS; MODULAR ORGANIZATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84982318985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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