A Paretian Approach to Optimal Design With Uncertainties: Application in Induction Heating

Author

Di Barba, Paolo ; Dughiero, F. ; Forzan, Michele ; Sieni, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Volume

50

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

Feb. 2014

Firstpage

917

Lastpage

920

Abstract

A major issue in optimal design of electromagnetic devices relates to optimizing against uncertainty, in terms of geometric and physical parameters. The induction heating of a graphite disk, with the purpose to obtain a prescribed temperature profile, is considered as the model problem. The novelty of this paper is a cost-effective method enabling the designer to select the Pareto optimal solutions trading off design criterion and sensitivity.

Keywords

Pareto optimisation; finite element analysis; graphite; induction heating; Paretian approach; Pareto optimal solutions; cost-effective method; design criterion; design uncertainty; electromagnetic devices; finite element analysis; geometric parameters; graphite disk; induction heating; optimal design; physical parameters; temperature profile; Graphite; Indexes; Optimization; Sensitivity; Temperature sensors; Uncertainty; Vectors; Design uncertainties; finite elements; multiobjective optimal design; multiphysics field problems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2013.2280377

Filename

6749100