Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling (PDF)

Surrogate models expedite the search for promising designs by
standing in for expensive design evaluations or simulations. They
provide a global model of some metric of a design (such as weight,
aerodynamic drag, cost, etc.), which can then be optimized
efficiently.

Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling is a
self-contained guide to surrogate models and their use in
engineering design. The fundamentals of building, selecting,
validating, searching and refining a surrogate are presented in a
manner accessible to novices in the field. Figures are used
liberally to explain the key concepts and clearly show the
differences between the various techniques, as well as to emphasize
the intuitive nature of the conceptual and mathematical reasoning
behind them.

More advanced and recent concepts are each presented in
stand-alone chapters, allowing the reader to concentrate on
material pertinent to their current design problem, and concepts
are clearly demonstrated using simple design problems. This
collection of advanced concepts (visualization, constraint
handling, coping with noisy data, gradient-enhanced modelling,
multi-fidelity analysis and multiple objectives) represents an
invaluable reference manual for engineers and researchers active in
the area.

Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling is
complemented by a suite of Matlab codes, allowing the reader to
apply all the techniques presented to their own design problems. By
applying statistical modelling to engineering design, this book
bridges the wide gap between the engineering and statistics
communities. It will appeal to postgraduates and researchers across
the academic engineering design community as well as practising
design engineers.

* Provides an inclusive and practical guide to using surrogates
in engineering design.

* Presents the fundamentals of building, selecting, validating,
searching and refining a surrogate model.

* Guides the reader through the practical implementation of a
surrogate-based design process using a set of case studies from
real engineering design challenges.

Accompanied by a companion website featuring Matlab software
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