A Model-Order-Reduction Method for Large-Scale Topology Optimization Designs Based on Domain Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks
Overview
The invention propose and develop an ANN-based model-order-reduction method to greatly reduce the computational cost of the expensive numerical evaluation of the objective and constraints and thus to speed up the TO process for large-scale designs.
Commercialisation opportunities
Technology licensing agreement / Industry collaboration
Problem addressed
The proposed method replaces the time-consuming full-scale simulation required in each design iteration with the coarse-scale simulation to gain efficiency. It uses an artificial neural network (ANN) to obtain the full-scale field of interest from the coarse-scale field and uses domain decomposition to expand the application scope of the method.
Innovation
- A pretrained ANN model
- ANN maps coarse field to fine field
- Domain decomposition
Key impact
- Drastically reduce the computational cost of large-scale design
- For 2D structure design with scale of 16, 2 orders of magnitude reduction in computational time
Application
- A large-range design for Aircraft component
- Any software design tool using FEM calculation
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