Development of Global Optimization Method for Design of Turbine Stages

A new optimization method which can search for the global optimum solution and decrease the number of iterations was developed. The performance of the new method was found to be effective in finding the optimum solution for single- and multi-peaked functions for which the global optimum solution was known in advance. According to the application of the method to the optimum design of turbine stages, it was shown that the method can search the global optimum solution at approximately one seventh of the iterations of GA (Genetic Algorithm) or SA (Simulated Annealing).