Concurrent framework for multi-physics topology optimization with design and manufacturing constraints

A system for topology optimization of a design for manufacturing, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having modules stored thereon with instructions executable by the processor, the modules comprising:
• two or more physics solvers each configured to generate one or more physical field variables and one or more objective values based on received design variables;
• two or more sensitivity computational modules each configured to compute a sensitivity field based on the mesh and the physical field variables;
• a design optimizer module configured to generate an updated design comprising one or more new design variables by concurrently executing an optimization of the design domain based sensitivity fields of each of the sensitivity computational modules, the objective values, one or more optimization requirements, one or more design constraints, and one or more manufacturing constraints;
• wherein an iterative topology optimization is performed by iterations of the design optimizer receiving new sensitivity fields from the two or more sensitivity modules based on the computed physical field variables.