Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: State of the Art

by Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, Langley Research Center, Icase/Nasa Langley Workshop on Multidisciplinary Design

Treats the technology, environment, and methodology of designing complex, coupled engineering systems, such as aircraft and automobiles, the behavior of which is determined by interacting subsystems. Engineers and mathematicians from a number of specialties offer 25 papers from a March 1995 workshop in Hampton, Virginia on multidisciplinary optimization methods, developments within certain disciplines, approximation concepts, a decision-based environment, and applications. A knowledge of calculus and differential equations will get a reader by, but a full understanding requires a background in applied mathematics, optimization, and engineering issues. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

455 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1997