Aerodynamic design of a flying wing using response surface methodology

被引:55
作者
Sevant, NE [1 ]
Bloor, MIG [1 ]
Wilson, MJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Leeds, Dept Appl Math, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England
来源
JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT | 2000年 / 37卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.2514/2.2665
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The design of a subsonic Eying wing with maximized lift is considered. A novel method of surface generation, known as the partial differential equation (PDE) method, is used to parameterize the Eying wing. Because this method is able to parameterize complex geometrics in terms of a small number of shape parameters, the computational costs that are normally associated with optimal aerodynamic design are dramatically reduced. The lift data, which are estimated using a low-order potential flow panel method, are subject to numerical noise and yield, therefore, a design space that contains many spurious noise-induced local maxima. Standard methods of local optimization are severely hampered by this noise and may converge prematurely in nonoptimal plateau regions where the variation of the lift is small relative to that of the noise. To combat this inefficiency; techniques from response surface methodology (RSM) are used to construct smooth analytic approximations of the noisy lift data, which can be optimized successfully. This combination of the PDE method and RSM results in a design approach that is both efficient and robust. Three Eying-wing design problems are investigated, and the results are presented.
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页码:562 / 569
页数:8
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