• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.256-264
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• 2012

A general procedure for the optimal design of a micro-channel heat exchanger for heat pump systems is presented. For this design, a performance analysis program that can reflect the various geometric variables of the micro-channel heat exchanger was developed. The deviation between simulated and experiment results of previous research was within 4% for the heat transfer rate. To prove the feasibility of the optimal design process, the performance of the reference heat exchanger was compared to that of the optimized heat exchanger. The $JF_{air}$ and PECv of the optimized heat exchanger were enhanced by 14% and 26%, respectively.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.5
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• pp.377-382
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• 2007

This paper proposes a training algorithm for global optimization of the parameters of radial basis function networks. Since conventional training algorithms usually perform only local optimization, the performance of the network is limited and the final network significantly depends on the initial network parameters. The proposed hybrid simulated annealing algorithm performs global optimization of the network parameters by combining global search capability of simulated annealing and local optimization capability of gradient-based algorithms. Via experiments for function approximation problems, we demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can find networks showing better training and test performance and reduce effects of the initial network parameters on the final results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.24-33
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• 2009

The present study deals with the optimization of the leading edge shape around a wing-body junction to minimize the strength of the horseshoe vortex, which is one of the main factor generating the secondary flow losses. For this purpose, approximate optimization method is used for the optimization. The study is performed by using $FLUENT^{TM}$ and $iSIGHT^{TM}$. The total pressure coefficient for the optimized model was decreased about 9.79% compared with the baseline model.

• Composites Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.19-25
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• 2010

This paper describes the optimum design of bolt locations for metal joint parts of railway bogie frame made of glass fiber/epoxy 4-harness satin woven laminate composite and PVC foam core. The optimum design analysis was done by sub-problem approximation method using Ansys Parameter Design Language(APDL). The sub-modeling method was introduced to conduct the detailed recalculation for the only target parts and reduce calculating time. The structural analysis for composite bogie frame was performed according to JIS E 4207. The results showed that the optimum design analysis using sub-modeling method was able to obtain faster and more precise results than that of the entire model by the control of mesh size for the target parts, and the maximum Von-Mises stress has been reduced in comparison with its original dimensions due to the optimum design of bolt locations.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.36-43
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.660-665
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• 2002

일반적으로 유한요소 모델로부터 구한 해석결과는 대상 구조물의 모드 실험결과와 오차를 보인다. 이러한 오차로 인해서 유한요소 모델의 효용성에 한계가 발생하게 되면, 모델의 신뢰성을 높일 수 있도록 모델을 보정하는 절차가 필요하다. 유한요소 모델 개선은 이러한 오차를 줄이기 위해서 유한요소 모델을 변경하는 체계적인 접근법이다. 유한요소 모델에서 변경할 수 있는 매개변수의 개수는 실험결과의 개수보다 훨씬 많으므로 실험결과와 일치되는 개선된 모델의 수는 무한하다고 할 수 있다. 그러나, 개선된 유한요소 모델이 물리적 타당성을 갖도록 매개변수의 선택과 변경에 제한을 주면 초기 유한요소 모델에 비해서 실험결과와의 오차가 개선된 근사해만 존재하게 된다. 따라서, 모델 개선 과정을 통해서 구한 개선된 모델은 오차의 평가기준 또는 목적함수에 따라서 정해진 다양한 근사해 중 하나이다. 기존의 모델 개선 방법에서는 실험결과와의 오차를 나타내는 단 하나의 평가기준 또는 목적함수를 사용하고 이를 최소화하는 모델을 구한다. 최적화 결과를 얻기 전에는 사용된 평가기준이 타당한지 검토할 수 없으므로 대부분의 경우, 시행착오 방법으로 목적함수를 설정하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 다목적 최적화 개념을 이용한 평가기준을 소개하고 특히, 대화식 다목적 최적화 기법을 이용하여 유한요소 모델을 개선한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.61-65
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• 2011

In this paper, the nozzle design with asymmetric configuration using the optimal method is used in order to improve the under- and over-expansion problem of the flow at the supersonic turbine nozzle. For the design of nozzle contour, 8 design variables are selected and the total-to-static efficiency from the nozzle inlet to the wake outlet is considered as the objective function to be maximized. The Fluent6.3 and the iSIGHT-FD program are used for calculation of nozzle flow and design optimization respectively. RBF(Radial Basis Function) method is chosen for approximate optimization algorithm. It is shown that the static efficiency of improved nozzle design increases 1.35% and loss coefficient decreases 19.85% as compared to baseline design.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.3-9
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• 2015

Under the maximum transmit power constraint and the minimum rate constraint, we propose the optimal number of transmit antennas and transmit power which maximize energy-efficiency (EE) in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system with the maximal ratio transmission (MRT) precoding. Because the optimization problem for the instantaneous channel is difficult to solve, we use independence of individual channel, average channel gain and path loss to approximate the objective function. Since the approximated EE optimization problem is two-dimensional search problem, we find the optimal number of transmit antennas and transmit power using Lagrange multipliers and our proposed algorithm. Simulation results show that the number of transmit antennas and power obtained by proposed algorithm are almost identical to the value by the exhaustive search.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.339-348
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• 2001

More often a commercial package for the structural analysis is necessary in the structural optimum design. In this case the task of combining the package with an optimization program must be required, hut it is not so simple because interchanging some data between them is difficult. Sequential approximate optimization is currently used as a natural way to overcome the hard task. If sequential approximate optimization has wide side constraints that the lower limit of design variables is very small and their upper limit is very large, it is not so easy to obtain approximated functions accurately for the whole design domain. This paper proposes a sequential design domain method, which is very useful to carry out sequential approximate optimization in this case. In this paper, the response surface methodology is used to obtain approximated functions and the orthogonal array is used for design of experiments. The sequential approximate optimization of 3-bar and 10-bar trusses is demonstrated to verify the reliability of the sequential design domain method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.565-570
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• 2001

대상 기계구조물의 유한요소 모델로부터 구한 해석결과가 실험결과와 오차를 나타낼 때, 이러한 오차를 줄일 수 있도록 유한요소 모델의 변경이 요구된다. 유한요소 모델개선은 이러한 역문제(Inverse Problem)를 다루는 체계적인 접근법이다. 일반적으로 유한요소 모델에서 변경할 수 있는 매개변수의 개수는 실험결과의 개수보다 많으므로 실험결과와 일치되는 개선된 유한요소 모델은 무한하다고 할 수 있다. 그러나, 개선된 유한요소 모델이 물리적 타당성을 갖도록 매개변수의 변경량에 제한을 주면 일반적으로 초기 유한요소 모델에 비해 실험결과와의 오차가 개선된 근사해만 존재하게 된다. 따라서, 모델개선 과정을 통해 구한 개선된 모델은 오차의 평가기준 또는 목적함수에 따라 정해진 다양한 근사해 중 하나이다. 기존의 모델개선 방법에서는 단 하나의 오차 평가기준 또는 목적함수를 사용하고 이를 최소화 하는 모델을 구한다. 개선된 모델을 구하기 이전에는 사용된 평가기준이 타당한지 검토할 수 없으므로 대부분의 경우, 시행착오법으로 목적함수를 설정하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 다목적 최적화 기법을 이용한 오차 평가기준을 소개하고 이를 하드디스크커버 유한요소 모델개선에 응용한다.