Authors:
Marco Inzillo
1
and
Carlos Kavka
2
Affiliations:
1
Università della Calabria, Italy
;
2
ESTECO SpA, Italy
Keyword(s):
Functional Mock-up Interface, Numerical Simulations, Multi-objective Optimization, Multi-disciplinary Optimization, Co-simulation.
Abstract:
Numerical simulations and optimization are at the base of the design process of modern complex engineering
systems. Typically, individual components are simulated by using highly specialized software tools applicable
to single or narrow domains (mechanical stress, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, acoustic, etc.) and then
combined together in order to build complex systems to be co-simulated and optimized. This distributed
engineering development process requires that model components must be developed in such a way, that they
could be easily interchanged between different departments of the same company, may be geographically
distributed or even between independent companies. This position paper provides a short discussion about the
currently available standards and presents work in progress concerning the definition of new standards for the
interconnection of complex engineering systems and its optimization as required in modern engineering
design. The paper is complemented with a fe
w examples which provides a base for further discussion.
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