WhatsOpt: a web application for multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization

Overview & Synopsis

This paper describes ONERA's ongoing effort to develop a collaborative environment to support multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization in the context of overall vehicle design team activities. This environment, namely WhatsOpt, is a web application allowing the ONERA experts to define collaboratively aircraft multidisciplinary analyses in terms of disciplines and data exchanges. From that high-level definition, users can generate the source code skeleton required to plug the implementations of disciplines and get an actual executable model of the concept under study. Then, they are able to run numerical methods such as sensibility analysis and design of experiments in order to finally tune the model, define and run optimizations regarding given design target requirements.