Author

Alexander Duggan

Senior Application Engineer
ESTECO

Alexander Duggan

Senior Application Engineer
ESTECO

Alexander Duggan graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering in 2010. He joined the ESTECO North America support team in 2010 and is responsible for supporting modeFRONTIER and VOLTA users, mainly in North America, to improve their products’ performance by applying optimization techniques. The support work is wide-ranging and crosses many industries including automotive, aerospace, and architecture.

Blog post

Streamline eVTOL aircraft propeller design with a server-based framework for MDAO studies

Written by Alexander Duggan, Vivek Ahuja

15 February 2023 · 10 min read

Why Multi-disciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) for Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft development.

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Business person interacting with cost diagram in a virtual screen representing cost optimization with Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.
Blog post

Complexity, Performance, and Cost: the changing landscape of MDO

Written by Alexander Duggan

22 November 2019 · 6 min read

MDO has historically not relied on any cost estimation tool of reasonable fidelity among its many disciplines. Even though MDO is ready and able to include and introduce cost analysis as another discipline and as an objective, the question is - should we?

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