Transfer learning from two-dimensional supercritical airfoils to three-dimensional transonic swept wings

Machine learning has been widely utilized in flow field modeling and aerodynamic optimization. However, most applications are limited to two-dimensional problems. The dimensionality and the cost per simulation of three-dimensional problems are so high that it is often too expensive to prepare sufficient samples. Therefore, transfer learning has become a promising approach to reuse well-trained two-dimensional models and greatly reduce the need for samples for three-dimensional problems. This pap...     

INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY EXCITATION EFFECTS ON AERODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF AIRFOILS

In this paper, the techniques to manage and control the flow over airfoils by using the external unsteady excitations are investigated. The mechanisms of these excitation effects are also explored. The principal goal of this study is to gain a better understanding and to find the possible ways for enhancing the aerodynamic efficients. The experimental investigations are carried out in two low-speed wind tunnels. The test models are two dimensional airfoils with different section geometries. Four means of excitations have been used in these experiments. (1) The pitch oscillation of the airfoil high-angle-of-attack situation. (2) The moving surface effects of the airfoil with a leading edge rotating cylinder. (3) Oscillating leading edge flaperon. (4) Small oscillating spoiler located near the leading edge of the airfoil. The lift, drag and pitch moment coefficients are measured in these experiments. But, we will put the emphasis only on the "dynamic amplifying effects" on aerodynamic lift in this paper.     

Robust Navier-Stokes method for predicting unsteady flowfield and aerodynamic characteristics of helicopter rotor

A robust unsteady rotor flowfield solver CLORNS code is established to predict the complex unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of rotor flowfield. In order to handle the difficult problem about grid generation around rotor with complex aerodynamic shape in this CFD code,a parameterized grid generated method is established, and the moving-embedded grids are constructed by several proposed universal methods. In this work, the unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) equations with Spalart-Allmaras are selected as the governing equations to predict the unsteady flowfield of helicopter rotor. The discretization of convective fluxes is accomplished by employing the second-order central difference scheme, third-order MUSCL-Roe scheme, and fifth-order WENO-Roe scheme. Aimed at simulating the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of helicopter rotor, the dual-time scheme with implicit LU-SGS scheme is employed to accomplish the temporal discretization. In order to improve the computational efficiency of holecells and donor elements searching of the moving-embedded grid technology, the ‘‘disturbance diffraction method" and ‘‘minimum distance scheme of donor elements method" are established in this work. To improve the computational efficiency, Message Passing Interface(MPI) parallel method based on subdivision of grid, local preconditioning method and Full Approximation Storage(FAS) multi-grid method are combined in this code. By comparison of the numerical results simulated by CLORNS code with test data, it is illustrated that the present code could simulate the aerodynamic loads and aerodynamic noise characteristics of helicopter rotor accurately.     

Behavior and functional modeling methods of doubly salient electromagnetic generators for aircraft electrical power system applications

The Doubly Salient Electromagnetic Generator(DSEG) is a promising candidate in aircraft generator application due to the simplicity, robustness and reliability. However, the field windings and the armature windings are strongly coupled, which makes the inductance characteristics non-linear and too complex to model. The complex model with low precision also leads to difficulties in modeling and analysis of the entire aircraft Electrical Power System(EPS). A behavior level modeling method based on modified inductance Support Vector Machine(SVM) is proposed. The Finite Element Analysis(FEA) inductance data are modified based on the experiment results to improve the precision. A functional level modeling method based on input–output characteristics SVM is also proposed. The two modeling methods are applied to a 9 kW DSEG prototype. The steady state and transient process precision of the proposed methods are proved by comparing with the experiment results. Meanwhile, the modeling time consumption, the application time consumption and the calculation resource demand are compared. The DSEG behavior and functional modeling methods provide precious results with high efficiency, which accelerates theoretical analysis and expands the application foreground of the DSEG in the aircraft EPS.     

Aerodynamic Modeling and Parameter Estimation from QAR Data of an Airplane Approaching a High-altitude Airport

Aerodynamic modeling and parameter estimation from quick accesses recorder (QAR) data is an important technical way to analyze the effects of highland weather conditions upon aerodynamic characteristics of airplane. It is also an essential content of flight accident analysis. The related techniques are developed in the present paper, including the geometric method for angle of attack and sideslip angle estimation, the extended Kalman filter associated with modified Bryson-Frazier smoother (EKF-MBF) method for aerodynamic coefficient identification, the radial basis function (RBF) neural network method for aerodynamic modeling, and the Delta method for stability/control derivative estimation. As an application example, the QAR data of a civil airplane approaching a high-altitude airport are processed and the aerodynamic coefficient and derivative estimates are obtained. The estimation results are reasonable, which shows that the developed techniques are feasible. The causes for the distribution of aerodynamic derivative estimates are analyzed. Accordingly, several measures to improve estimation accuracy are put forward.     

Robust Control for Static Loading of Electro-hydraulic Load Simulator with Friction Compensation

Load simulator is a key test equipment for aircraft actuation systems in hardware-in-the-loop-simulation. Static loading is an essential function of the load simulator and widely used in the static/dynamic stiffness test of aircraft actuation systems. The tracking performance of the static loading is studied in this paper. Firstly, the nonlinear mathematical models of the hydraulic load simulator are derived, and the feedback linearization method is employed to construct a feed-forward controller to improve the force tracking performance. Considering the effect of the friction, a LuGre model based friction compensation is synthesized, in which the unmeasurable state is estimated by a dual state observer via a controlled learning mechanism to guarantee that the estimation is bounded. The modeling errors are attenuated by a well-designed robust controller with a control accuracy measured by a design parameter. Employing the dual state observer is to capture the different effects of the unmeasured state and hence can improve the friction compensation accuracy. The tracking performance is summarized by a derived theorem. Experimental results are also obtained to verify the high performance nature of the proposed control strategy.     

Numerical Simulation of Rotor-aerodynamic Surface Interaction in Hover Using Moving Chimera Grid

Three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations are numerically solved to simulate the aerodynamic interaction of rotor, canard and horizontal tail in hover based on moving chimera grid. The variations of unsteady aerodynamic forces and moments of the canard and horizontal tail with respect to the rotor azimuth are analyzed with the deflection angle set at 0° and 50°, respectively. The pressure map of aerodynamic surfaces and velocity vector distribution of flow field are investigated to get better understanding of the unsteady aerodynamic interaction. The result shows that the canard and horizontal tail present different characteristics under the downwash of the rotor. The canard produces much vertical force loss with low amplitude fluctuation. Contrarily, the horizontal tail, which is within the flow field induced by the down wash of the rotor, produces only less vertical force loss, but the amplitudes of the lift and pitching moment are larger, implying that a potential deflection angle scheme in hover is 50° for the canard and 0° for the horizontal tail.     

Effects of yaw-roll coupling ratio on lateral-directional aerodynamic characteristics

Experimental investigation of large amplitude yaw-roll coupled oscillations was conducted in a low-speed wind tunnel using an aircraft configuration model. A special test rig was designed and constructed to provide different coupled motions from low to high angles of attack.A parameter ‘‘coupling ratio" was introduced to indicate the extent of yaw-roll coupling. At each pitch angle, seven coupling ratios were designed to study the yaw-roll coupling effects on the lateraldirectional aerodynamic characteristics systematically. At high angles of attack, the damping characteristics of yawing and rolling moments drastically varied with coupling ratios. In the coupled motions with the rotation taking place about the wind axis, the lateral-directional aerodynamic moments exhibited unsteady characteristics and were different from the ‘‘quasi-steady" results of the rotary balance tests. The calculated results of the traditional aerodynamic derivative method were also compared with the experimental data. At low and very high angles of attack, the aerodynamic derivative method was applicative. However, within a wide range of angles of attack, the calculated results of aerodynamic derivative method were inconsistent with the experimental data, due to the drastic changes of damping characteristics of lateral-directional aerodynamic moments with yaw-roll coupling ratios.     

A hybrid original approach for prediction of the aerodynamic coe?cients of an ATR-42 scaled wing model

A new approach for the prediction of lift, drag, and moment coefficients is presented. This approach is based on the support vector machines (SVMs) methodology and an optimization meta-heuristic algorithm called extended great deluge (EGD). The novelty of this approach is the hybridization between the SVM and the EGD algorithm. The EGD is used to optimize the SVM parameters. The training and validation of this new identification approach is realized using the aerodynamic coefficients of an ATR-42 wing model. The aerodynamic coefficients data are obtained with the XFoil software and experimental tests using the Price–Pa?doussis wind tunnel. The predicted results with our approach are compared with those from the XFoil software and experimental results for different flight cases of angles of attack and Mach numbers. The main pur-pose of this methodology is to rapidly predict aircraft aerodynamic coefficients.     

飞机大迎角非定常气动力建模研究进展

准确建立非定常气动力数学模型,是飞机大迎角飞行控制律设计、飞行动力学分析和飞行仿真的基础与前提。鉴于此,对大迎角非定常气动力建模研究进展,包括数学建模方法和人工智能建模方法两类进行了系统综述。其中：数学类建模方法是以对非定常流动现象和机理认识为基础的,主要有气动导数模型、非线性阶跃响应模型、状态空间模型、微分方程模型、非线性阶跃响应与状态空间混合模型以及迎角速率模型等;人工智能方法回避了复杂流动机理,属于黑箱非线性系统建模,主要有神经网络模型、模糊逻辑模型和支持向量机模型等。对于每种气动力模型,阐述了其建模思路和方法,给出了典型应用情况,并对其特点和局限性作了简要评述。最后,指出了当前大迎角非定常气动力建模研究工作存在的问题和未来研究方向。     

建模变量对非定常空气动力数学模型的影响

在某飞机大振幅偏航、滚转单自由度运动风洞试验的基础上,采用不同建模变量,用模糊逻辑方法建立滚转力矩模型,分析研究了不同变量对模型精度的影响;然后运用得到的较为合理的建模变量,采用非定常模型获取偏航-滚转耦合运动的气动力系数,并与试验结果比较,分析不同的变量组合对该模型预测精度的影响。结果表明,不论在哪种运动形式下,建模变量间的相关性都是造成模型预测精度低的主要因素。对于单自由度运动,应取α、β、ωy(ωx)为建模变量;对于耦合运动,以α、β、ωx、ωy为建模变量较好。     

非定常自由来流对飞机过失速机动特性的影响研究

在南航非定常风洞内,对三角翼模型在定常和非定常自由来流中做俯仰运动的动态气动特性进行了实验研究.利用模糊逻辑建模方法,对实验获得的非定常气动力数据进行了建模,并将非定常气动力模型应用于过失速机动中70°迎角定直飞行的仿真计算,分析了含自由来流非定常变化影响的非定常气动力数据对过失速机动飞行特性产生的影响.研究表明,考虑自由来流非定常变化的非定常气动力对飞机飞行过程中运动参数的变化和控制律设计都产生较大影响.因此在新一代战斗机的设计、研制中,深入研究飞机的非定常气动特性是十分必要的.     

Unstable unsteady aerodynamic modeling based on least squares support vector machines with general excitation

Common, unsteady aerodynamic modeling methods usually use wind tunnel test data from forced vibration tests to predict stable hysteresis loop. However, these methods ignore the initial unstable process of entering the hysteresis loop that exists in the actual maneuvering process of the aircraft. Here, an excitation input suitable for nonlinear system identification is introduced to model unsteady aerodynamic forces with any motion in the amplitude and frequency ranges based on the Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs). In the selection of the input form, avoiding the use of reduced frequency as a parameter makes the model more universal. After model training is completed, the method is applied to predict the lift coefficient, drag coefficient and pitching moment coefficient of the RAE2822 airfoil, in sine and sweep motions under the conditions of plunging and pitching at Mach number 0.8. The predicted results of the initial unstable process and the final stable process are in close agreement with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) data, demonstrating the feasibility of the model for nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics modeling and the effectiveness of the input design approach.     

非定常气动力非线性微分方程建模方法

为准确描述过失速机动中非定常气动力特性,研究了以非线性微分方程为基本结构的非定常气动建模方法.基于动力学系统建模思想,分析揭示该模型的物理机理,并发展和改进了基于风洞强迫振荡试验的模型参数辨识方法:基于小振幅试验数据,采用线性回归参数辨识方法辨识确定气动模型中特征时间常数等线性参数;基于大振幅试验数据,采用遗传算法全局...     

一种建立航空发动机状态变量模型的新方法

本文提出了一种用于建立航空发动机状态变量模型的新方法—拟合法：即用发动机部件级模型在稳态工作点处的非线性动态响应数据拟合该点处的小偏离状态变量模型。并应用这种方法建立了某型涡扇发动机在高空稳态工作点处的小偏离状态变量模型,以及地面加速过程的大偏离状态变量模型。通过动态仿真研究,可以看出：与偏导数法比较,拟合法明显提高了建摸精度。     

飞机大攻角空间机动气动力建模研究

 准确的气动力模型是大攻角机动仿真与控制等飞行动力学问题研究的基础。针对纵向运动建立的非线性非定常气动力微分方程模型扩展应用于一般空间运动形式,在分析大攻角非定常流动机理和试验数据的基础上,发展了一种多自由度非线性非定常气动力数学模型,并探讨了模型辨识和参数估计问题。用全机构形的大攻角动态风洞试验数据对模型进行的验证表明所发展的气动力模型能够描述大攻角气动力主要的非线性和非定常特性。     

民机极限飞行状态的动态气动力试验与建模

飞行失控是造成民机灾难性航空事故的重要因素,飞行失控中飞机难以避免超出正常飞行包线范围,进入具有复杂非线性和非定常动态气动特性的极限飞行状态。本文开展典型民机布局飞机极限飞行状态的动导数、大振幅试验,对大迎角动态气动力的参数影响规律以及非线性、非定常特性进行分析和建模。结果表明,在飞机失速到过失速区域,飞行姿态快速变化过程中动态气动力的非线性和非定常特征显著;在动导数试验和建模中,考虑运动角速率的影响,可以预示气动力非线性的迎角范围,并捕捉到关于飞机动稳定性演化的关键特征;利用Goman-Khrabrov状态空间模型结合大振幅试验,可以确定模型中表征非定常特征的关键时间常数,获得特定极限飞行状态运动中的非定常动态气动力特性。研究方法和结果为开展民机极限飞行状态的动态气动力风洞试验设计与建模提供了一个可行途径,能改进飞机飞行失控预防、极限状态改出、飞行模拟训练和飞行事故分析等。     

基于增量学习的非定常气动力参数化降阶模型

气动降阶模型（ROM）是预测非定常气动力的有效工具,具有高精度和低计算成本的优点,近年来许多研究证实了该方法的有效性。但是关于飞行参数变化时,ROM的鲁棒性还需要进一步提高。为了提高ROM对不同飞行参数下的气动力预测能力,提出了基于最小二乘支持向量回归（LS-SVR）和增量学习算法的参数化降阶模型。LS-SVR是一种具有良好泛化能力的回归方法,基于LS-SVR的增量学习算法的主要贡献是在增加新样本集时,不需要重新学习整个数据集。为说明该方法的有效性,基于两自由度NACA64A010翼型构建参数化非定常气动力降阶模型。为了训练气动力输入和相应输出之间的关系,将马赫数和迎角作为附加的模型输入。仿真结果表明,该降阶模型能够准确描述气动力和气动弹性系统在不同飞行参数下的动态特性。