Alexander Forrester & Andras Sobester 
Engineering Design via Surrogate Modelling [PDF ebook] 
A Practical Guide

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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Om författaren

Dr. Alexander I. J. Forrester is Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Southampton. His main area of research focuses on improving the efficiency with which expensive analysis (particularly computational fluid dynamics) is used in design. His techniques have been applied to wing aerodynamics, satellite structures, sports equipment design and Formula One.

Dr Andras Sobester is a Lecturer and EPSRC/ Royal Academy of Engineering research Fellow in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton. His research interests include aircraft design, aerodynamic shape parameterization and optimization, as well as engineering design technology in general.

Professor Andy J. Keane currently holds the Chair of Computational Engineering at the University of Southampton. He leads the University’s Computational Engineering at the Design Research Group and directs the rolls-Royce University Technology centre for Computational Engineering. His interests lie primarily in the aerospace sciences, with a focus on the design of aerospace systems using computational methods. He has published over two hundred papers and three books in this area, many of which deal with surrogate modelling concepts.