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Multivariate Search and Its Application to Aircraft Design Optimisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W. Z. Stepniewski  and
C. F. Kalmbach
W. Z. Stepniewski
Affiliation:
The Boeing Company, Vertol Division and Princeton University
C. F. Kalmbach
Affiliation:
The Boeing Company, Vertol Division and Princeton University
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Long before the legendary Queen Dido cleverly maximised the area of future Carthage by choosing the optimum perimeter shape, man probably consciously or subconsciously tried to optimise his designs as well as his actions.

In a more modern time, the post Renaissance period witnessed development of the principles of optimisation on a rigorous mathematical basis, as exemplified in works of Newton, Leibniz, Euler and many others. Eventually, those optimisation ideas were even transplanted by Leibniz and his school to the field of general philosophy, providing an attractive target for the merciless satire of Voltaire in Candide.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 713 , May 1970 , pp. 419 - 432
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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