OPALE Research team

Optimization and control, numerical algorithms and integration of complex multidiscipline systems governed by PDE

Team presentation

OPALE has several objectives : analyze mathematically single or multi-disciplinary coupled systems of partial differential equations arising from physics or engineering in view of their optimization or control ( geometrical optimization); contruct and experiment efficient numerical approximation methods (coupling algorithms, model reduction) and optimization algorithms (gradient-based and/or evolutionary algorithms, game theory); develop software platforms for the distributed parallel computation of the related discrete systems. Application problems include multi-disciplinary optimum shape design of an aircraft wing (in collaboration with Dassault Aviation), functional optimization of a rocket system (in collaboration with CNES), and optimization of antenna systems (in collaboration with France Télécom). OPALE also has a strong implication in several European networks involved in aspects of code validation.

Research themes

  • Numericals algorithms for multi-disciplinary optimization of PDE systems
  • Geometrical optimization
  • Software platforms for distributed parallel computing

International and industrial relations

  • Pôle Scientifique Dassault Aviation / Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • CNES (Evry)
  • France Télécom (La Turbie)
  • Thales (Bagneux)
Participation in several european projects :
  • FLOWnet, Thematic Network (database for pre-industrial code and flow validation)
  • INGENET, Thematik Network (database for genetic algorithms)
  • MACSInet, Network of Excellence (MAthematics, Computing and Simulation for Industry)

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