Patent ID: 8676548

Claim:
A design support apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store variable geometrical parameters for determining a shape of an object having a plurality of elements; and a processor configured to execute a process for determining a plurality of objective functions using the variable geometrical parameters of the object, the process including: determining boundary information associated with specified geometrical parameters of the elements which indicate a state of contact between the elements, dividing the variable geometrical parameters into a plurality of groups based on the boundary information, eliminating the variable geometrical parameters located around boundaries from each of the plurality of groups generated by a completion of the dividing, and determining an objective function having a minimum order each of the plurality of groups by an N-order polynomial modeling processing using the variable geometrical parameters which are included in each of the plurality of groups generated by the completion of the dividing and are subjected to an operation of eliminating the variable geometrical parameters located around boundaries from each of the plurality of groups as potential abnormal values.