Development of CASCADE - A Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Test Simulator for use in Distributed Computing Environments

Industry is constantly pursuing faster and cheaper means for designing and manufacturing high quality goods and services. This becomes ever more difficult as the complexity of the product increases. Much of the method development in the field of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) attempts to simplify the design of a large, complex system, by dividing the system into a series of smaller, simpler, and coupled subsystems. These methodologies require extensive testing, either on analytical representations of real-life systems, or on the actual system itself, prior to implementation in order to verify their feasibility and robustness. Due to the complexity of these real-life systems, however, it is not practical to perfor