Hydraulic Turbine Diffuser Shape Optimization by Multiple Surrogate Model Approximations of Pareto Fronts

A multiple surrogate-based optimization strategy in conjunction with an evolutionary algorithm has been employed to optimize the shape of a simplified hydraulic turbine diffuser utilizing three-dim ...

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