Genetic optimization for yacht design
Paolo Geremia, Mauro Poian, Silvia Poles · 2007
This paper introduces a procedure for using genetic multi-objective optimization in yacht design. The problem described consists on the optimization of a bulb shape to improve the performance of the yacht. The two objectives considered are the minimization of the drag in calm water together with the minimization of the Vertical Center of Gravity (VCG), all the configurations should satisfy length and volume constraints. Since there is no a single optimum to be found, the MOGA-II was used as multi-objective genetic algorithm. The distributed optimization search exploited the parallelization capabilities of the MOGA-II algorithm which allowed the evaluation of several designs configurations by running concurrent threads of the flow analysis solver.