Presented in this thesis is a novel methodology for aircraft design optimization in the presence of uncertainty, with emphasis on the conceptual design stage. In the initial part of the thesis, the uncertainty typologies ...

Most of the efforts in optimisation so far have been focused on the development of novel or the improvement of existing numerical methods for an effective computation of optimal solutions. Particular attention has been ...

Geometrical parameterisation has an important role in the aircraft design process due to its impact on the computational efficiency and accuracy in evaluating different configurations. In the early design stages, an aircraft ...

The contribution to new knowledge from this research is a novel method for modelling production costs throughout the design phase of a product's lifecycle, from conceptual to detail design. The provision of cost data ...

When designing a complex industrial product, the designer often has to optimise simultaneously multiple conflicting criteria. Such a problem does not usually have a unique solution, but a set of non-dominated solutions ...