Design Explorer

Description
Design Explorer is an advanced optimization algorithm that was developed to efficiently solve difficult real-world design problems. Design Explorer can effectively solve difficult optimization problems where engineering analyses take long time to run, their responses are noisy and highly non-linear, and engineering simulations may fail. Design Explorer automatically creates approximation models of objectives and constraints and uses them to perform optimization runs with different starting points to find global optimum. Design Explorer solves general constrained optimization problems with continuous design variables.

Trade Study Resume
Design Explorer supports continuing a trade study after a halt or crash. All Kriging data is restored, and the optimization will continue from there. Note that when resuming with Design Explorer, the initial DOE needs to be completed. If the optimization is halted before the initial DOE completes then it cannot be resumed. See the general Optimization Tool documentation for more general information on resuming Trade Studies.