Sunil Tamang (PhD Student) presented his research on “Formulating a sequence of compact optimization problems for floating offshore wind turbine based on design coupling information” at the 2025 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conferences and Exposition (IMECE).

Sunil Tamang and Yong Hoon Lee (2025). “Formulating a sequence of compact optimization problems for floating offshore wind turbine based on design coupling information”, In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Memphis, TN, USA. (Extended Abstract) [bibtex]

Abstract:

The paper tackles the challenging task of modeling and optimizing the multidisciplinary integration of the Offshore wind turbine with Control-Co design. The study begins with reading the design coupling Jacobian heat map based on a surrogate model. The darker color represents a higher intensity of design coupling strength between two variables while the lighter color represents the opposite. The heat map is interpreted and formulated into a sequence of compact optimization problems to design floating offshore wind turbines based on design coupling information. The results from this sequential optimization problem thus formulated are compared with the optimal solution and several random sequences of optimization. The results are very close to the simultaneous CCD optimization results i.e. optimal results confirming the qualitative information provided by design coupling Jacobian. The approach can be utilized in the early stages of the offshore wind turbine design by the researchers and the engineers considering the computationally efficiency because of the reduced design space.