MDO test suite at NASA Langley Research Center
Sharon L. Padula, Natalia M. Alexandrov, L. Green · 6th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization · 1996
The NASA Langley Research Center supports a wide variety of multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) research and requires a set of standard MDO test problems for evaluating and comparing the products of this research. This paper proposes a WorldWide -Web-based test suite for collecting, distributing, and maintaining the standard test problems. A prototype suite of 10 test problems, including written problem descriptions, benchmark solution methods, sample input and output files, and source code is available from the NASA Langley Research Center internet site. Here, design of the MDO test suite is discussed; typical test problems are described; and sample web pages are illustrated. Introduction Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) research has blossomed in the 12 years since the first Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization symposium was held in April 1984 at NASA Langley Research Center. However, the current usefulness and future development of MDO methodology is hampere...