Researchers pursue design optimization invehicle development technologies

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin and Jessara Group released in May experimental data and a code suite that demonstrates the calibration and deployment of a structuraldigital twin for an uncrewed aerial vehicle. In August, Rolls-Royce UK and its university research centers at Southampton and Sheffield presented novel turbomachinery topology MDO applications, carried out as part of the European Union-funded Multidisciplinary Adjoint-based Enablers for Largescale Industrial Design in Aeronautics, or Madeleine, project. One of these studies achieved a reduction of up to 10 decibels in a fan while still improving its aerodynamic efficiency and structural integrity. In May, Sandia researchers leveraged novel developments in uncertainty quantication to better enable statistical goal orientation within optimization under uncertainty.