Multidisciplinary Intelligent Design and Optimization of Flight Vehicle Systems
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flight vehicle system design; multidisciplinary design optimization; metamodel based design and optimization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flight vehicle design is a sophisticated systems engineering process consisting of many intercoupled disciplines. To improve system performance, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) has been widely employed in the design of flight vehicle systems. Due to the evaluation of expensive black-box simulations and the exploration of complex design space, huge computational expenses are associated with solving complex flight vehicle MDO problems, posing a challenge in engineering practice. To address this challenge, state-of-the-art intelligent techniques (e.g., artificial intelligence, data mining, digital twin) are expected to be integrated with MDO technology to further improve optimization efficiency and design quality. This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of recent advances in multidisciplinary intelligent design and optimization of flight vehicle systems. Authors are invited to submit full research articles and review manuscripts addressing topics including (but not limited to) the following:
- Novel design theories and applications of flight vehicle systems;
- Intelligent design optimization methods and applications;
- Data-driven multidisciplinary design optimization;
- Artificial intelligence-enhanced design optimization.
Dr. Renhe Shi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flight vehicle design
- multidisciplinary design optimization
- data-driven design
- artificial intelligence-based design
- metamodel-based design and optimization
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