scholarly journals Multi-fidelity Co-Kriging surrogate model for ship hull form optimization

2022 ◽  
Vol 243 ◽  
pp. 110239
Author(s):  
Xinwang Liu ◽  
Weiwen Zhao ◽  
Decheng Wan
Author(s):  
Xinwang Liu ◽  
Decheng Wan ◽  
Gang Chen

The paper explores Kriging-based surrogate model combined with Weighted Expected Improvement approach and for the ship hull form optimization. The training dataset of the Kriging-based surrogate model is obtained by sampling the design space (Design of Experiments, DOE) and performing expensive high-fidelity computations on the selected points. Expected Improvement (EI) is used as a criterion to select one additional sample point in each iteration. The Weighted Expected Improvement (WEI) is derived from EI by adding a tunable parameter which can adjust the weights on exploration and exploitation in the Efficient Global Optimization (EGO). The proposed method selects more than one new sample point by changing the weight parameter for each optimization iteration, thus it can be performed by parallel computation or multi-computer runs which improves the computational efficiency distinctly. This makes it possible not only to improve the accuracy of the surrogate model, but also to explore the global optimum much more quickly. The present method is applied to mathematical test function and a ship hull form optimization design in order to find the optimal hull form with best resistance performance in calm water in different speeds. The result shows that the criterion of WEI can be applied in EGO for optimization design and can be easily extended to other hull form optimization design problems based on computational fluid dynamics.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Wang ◽  
Ye Liu ◽  
Xiaoyi Ma

The numerical simulation of the optimal design of gravity dams is computationally expensive. Therefore, a new optimization procedure is presented in this study to reduce the computational cost for determining the optimal shape of a gravity dam. Optimization was performed using a combination of the genetic algorithm (GA) and an updated Kriging surrogate model (UKSM). First, a Kriging surrogate model (KSM) was constructed with a small sample set. Second, the minimizing the predictor strategy was used to add samples in the region of interest to update the KSM in each updating cycle until the optimization process converged. Third, an existing gravity dam was used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the GA–UKSM. The solution obtained with the GA–UKSM was compared with that obtained using the GA–KSM. The results revealed that the GA–UKSM required only 7.53% of the total number of numerical simulations required by the GA–KSM to achieve similar optimization results. Thus, the GA–UKSM can significantly improve the computational efficiency. The method adopted in this study can be used as a reference for the optimization of the design of gravity dams.


2019 ◽  
Vol 161 (A1) ◽  

Herein, we present an integrated ship re-design/modification strategy that integrates the ‘Computer-Aided Design (CAD)’ and ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)’ to modify the ship hull form for better performance in resistance. We assume a modular design and the ship hull form modification focuses on the forward module (e.g. bulbous bow) and aft module (e.g. stern bulb) only. The ship hull form CAD model is implemented with NAPA*TM and CFD model is implemented with Shipflow**TM. The basic ship hull form parameters are not changed and the modifications in some of the technical parameters because of re-designed bulbous bow and stern bulb are kept at very minimum. The bulbous bow is re-designed by extending an earlier method (Sharma and Sha (2005b)) and stern bulb parameters for re-design are computed from the experience gained from literature survey. The re-designed hull form is modeled in CAD and is integrated and analyzed with Shipflow**TM. The CAD and CFD integrated model is validated and verified with the ITTC approved recommendations and guidelines. The proposed numerical methodology is implemented on the ship hull form modification of a benchmark ship, i.e. KRISO container ship (KCS). The presented results show that the modified ship hull form of KCS - with only bow and stern modifications - using the present strategy, results into resistance and propulsive improvement.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Danyang Wang ◽  
Chunrong Hua ◽  
Dawei Dong ◽  
Biao He ◽  
Zhiwen Lu

Parameters identification of cracked rotors has been gaining importance in recent years, but it is still a great challenge to determine the crack parameters including crack location, depth, and angle for operating rotors. This work proposes a new method to identify crack parameters in a rotor-bearing system based on a Kriging surrogate model and an improved nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-III (NSGA-III). A rotor-bearing system with a breathing crack is established by the finite element method and the superharmonic components are used as index to detect the cracks, the Kriging surrogate model between crack parameters and the superharmonic component amplitudes of the vibration response for rotors are constructed, and an improved NSGA-III is proposed to obtain the optimal crack parameters. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method can identify the crack location, depth, and angle accurately and efficiently for operating rotors.


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