- Consider the following scenario: a company has approached you to improve the design of a water turbine that they sell to homeowners wishing to generate electricity to live “off-the-grid”.
They are aware that conventional fluid mechanics models do not really give good results, so you suggest an approach where you evolve designs. Your proposal is to measure a fitness for each design by using a 3D printer to create a plastic version which you then test in a stream of water.
List the possible sources of error and uncertainty in this approach and discuss how you might design your EA to take account of these.