Patent ID: 7428514

Claim:
A method for optimizing a design representing a physical object, wherein said physical object is an aerodynamic or hydrodynamic structure, comprising the steps of: (a) providing an initial population or a data set with a plurality of members respectively represented by parameter sets representing the design; (b) applying one or a plurality of fitness functions to evaluate the quality of the members of the population; (c) generating offspring of the population by means of a stochastic model using information from all members of the population; (d) applying one or a plurality of fitness functions to evaluate the quality of the offspring with respect to the underlying problem of the optimization; (e) selecting offspring, (f) repeating steps (c) through (e) until the quality reaches a threshold value representing the optimized design, and (g) storing said optimized design in a computer storage capable of being executed by a computing device; wherein a Voronoi-mesh is applied in step (c) to build a stochastic model for generating offspring.