HCA Approach to Topography Design Optimization of a Structure for Fluid Structure Interaction

This work presents an application of the Hybrid Cellular Automaton (HCA) approach to the shape optimization of aluminum thin walled structures for blast mitigation. The design objective is to minimize the kinetic energy transferred from the blast event to the target. Fluid structure interaction between blast products and the target structure is considered as the driving factor in the blast mitigation problem. The method proposed couples an...