TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper aims to deal with an efficient strategy for robust optimization when a large number of uncertainties are taken into account. Design/methodology/approach– ANOVA analysis is used in order to perform a variance-based decomposition and to reduce stochastic dimension based on an appropriate criterion. A massive use of metamodels allows reconstructing response surfaces for sensitivity indexes in the design variables plan. To validate the proposed approach, a simplified configuration, an inverse problem on a 1D nozzle flow, is solved and the performances compared to an exact Monte Carlo reference solution. Then, the same approach is applied to the robust optimization of a turbine cascade for thermodynamically complex flows. Findings– First, when the stochastic dimension is reduced, the error on the variance between the reduced and the complete problem was found to be roughly estimated by the quantity (1−T¯TSI)×100, where T¯TSIis the summation of TSI concerning the variables respecting the TSI criterion. Second, the proposed strategy allowed obtaining a converged Pareto front with a strong reduction of computational cost by preserving the same accuracy. Originality/value– Several articles exist in literature concerning robust optimization but very few dealing with a global approach for solving optimization problem affected by a large number of uncertainties. Here, a practical and efficient approach is proposed that could be applied also to realistic problems in engineering field.
VL  - 30
IS  - 8
SN  - 0264-4401
DO  - 10.1108/EC-01-2012-0012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2012-0012
AU  - Marco Congedo Pietro
AU  - Geraci Gianluca
AU  - Abgrall Rémi
AU  - Pediroda Valentino
AU  - Parussini Lucia
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - TSI metamodels-based multi-objective robust optimization
T2  - Engineering Computations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1032
EP  - 1053
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -