Multidisciplinary Optimization of an UAV Combining CFD and CSM

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) is a challenging goal for designers. The aim is to use optimization strategies to integrate a number of different disciplines simultaneously in the optimization process. The optimum of the multidisciplinary problem is better than the design found by optimizing each discipline sequentially, since it can exploit the interactions between the disciplines. However, including all disciplines simultaneously significantly increases the complexity of the problem.