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The design of a satellite boom using passive vibration control by Keane [J. of Sound and Vibration, 1995, 185(3), 441–453] has previously been carried out using an energy function of the design geometry aimed at minimising mechanical noise and vibrations. To minimise this cost function, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used, enabling modification of the initial geometry for a better design. To improve eficiency, it is proposed to couple the GA with a local search method involving the gradient of the cost function. In this paper, we detail the generation of an adjoint solver by automatic differentiation via Adifor 3.0. This has resulted in a gradient code that runs in 7.4 times the time of the function evaluation. This should reduce the rather time-consuming process (over 10 CPU days by using parallel processing) of the GA optimiser for this problem.
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Tadjouddine, M., Forth, S.A., Keane, A.J. (2006). Adjoint Differentiation of a Structural Dynamics Solver. In: Bücker, M., Corliss, G., Naumann, U., Hovland, P., Norris, B. (eds) Automatic Differentiation: Applications, Theory, and Implementations. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28438-9_27
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