GPU-accelerated Optimization with Structural Analysis

In this work we demonstrate how optimization scenarios can benefit from GPU-accelerated structural analysis simulations with examples in the domains design of experiment, topology optimization and multi-phase topology optimization. We show that it is important to also come up with a GPU-accelerated optimization algorithm to minimize overall run times. With an efficient novel linear solver, the resulting speedups enable in-situ optimizations, i.e., the possibility to inspect the optimization algorithm during run time enabling to gather a deeper understanding of the algorithms or to abort optimization runs earlier if configurations have been specified incorrectly.