Multiscale topology optimization using feature-driven method

This paper presents a multiscale design method for simultaneous topology optimization of both macrostructures and microstructures. Geometric features are extended as design primitives at both macro and micro scales and represented by Level Set Functions (LSFs). Parameters related to the locations, sizes, and orientations of macro and micro features are considered as design variables and optimized simultaneously. In the overlapping areas of different macro features, embedded microstructures are optimally figured out as the solution of the corresponding sub-optimization problem. In this study, the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is implemented for structural and sensitivity analyses with respect to design variables. This method has the advantage of using a fixed grid independent of the topology optimization process. The homogenization procedure is applied to calculate the effective properties of considered microstructures in each macro feature. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Results depict that the multiscale design cannot obviously improve structural stiffness compared with a solid-material design under the linear elastic condition.     

失效航天器姿态接管的SDRE微分博弈控制

针对燃料耗尽的失效航天器姿态接管控制问题，提出多颗微卫星协同实现姿态稳定的状态相关黎卡提方程(SDRE)微分博弈控制方法。首先，将姿态接管问题转化为多颗微卫星的微分博弈问题，基于组合航天器的姿态模型和微卫星的性能指标函数建立多颗微卫星的非线性微分博弈模型，微卫星通过独立优化各自的性能指标函数得到控制策略。其次，引入状态相关系数矩阵，将非线性博弈转化为状态相关线性二次型博弈，采用SDRE方法更方便地逼近微卫星的博弈均衡策略。最终通过李雅普诺夫迭代法求解耦合状态相关黎卡提方程组得到微卫星的状态反馈控制器，实现微卫星的自主决策。数值仿真验证了多颗微卫星采用微分博弈控制方法实现姿态接管的有效性和容错性。     

密度比对弯扭导叶扇形孔气膜冷却效率的影响

针对带扇形气膜孔的三维弯扭的高压涡轮一级导叶，采用压力敏感漆传质类比测量技术，研究了不同密度比与质量流量比下叶片的全表面气膜冷却效率分布特性。结果表明：叶片气膜冷却效率随密度比和质量流量比的增加而增大，冷气密度比从1.0增加到2.0时，叶片展向平均气膜冷却效率提升6%～32%。气膜冷却效率随密度比呈现非线性的变化，冷气密度比从1.0增加到1.5时，气膜冷却效率的增幅较小，密度比从1.5增加到2.0时，气膜冷却效率的增幅较大。     

航空发动机高压转子模拟平衡工艺分析与控制

针对大涵道比航空发动机高压转子采用模拟平衡工艺缺少数学分析手段以及模拟转子技术指标缺少制定依据的问题,提出一种模拟平衡工艺量化分析方法。以过转子重心的静和偶不平衡矢量来表示转子不平衡状态,定义了包含质量偏差、重心位置偏差、转动惯量偏差和端跳偏差的模拟转子模型,结合模拟平衡过程和转位平衡原理,建立转子校正不平衡量和转位补偿量数学模型,以高压组合转子初始不平衡量来评估模拟平衡质量。结果表明：模拟平衡能替代组合平衡,被平衡的两个转子均具备装配互换性和装配对接角度不受限制的特点;本案例中为控制模拟平衡质量,模拟转子质量偏差应在±4%以内,重心位置偏差应在±2 mm以内,直径和极转动惯量偏差均应在±5%以内,端跳偏差应小于0.008 mm。     

叶顶间隙和减振阻尼台对多级轴流压气机性能影响的数值模拟

以某多级轴流压气机为研究对象,采用数值模拟的方法研究了叶顶间隙和减振阻尼台对压气机气动性能的影响。研究揭示了叶顶间隙变化对叶顶泄漏流动的影响规律,分析了各级转子叶顶间隙变化对多级轴流压气机性能影响的相对大小。研究发现针对所研究的多级轴流压气机,第5级转子叶顶间隙的变化对压气机性能的影响幅度最大,当叶顶间隙从0.390 mm增加到1.007 mm时,级效率下降了1.72%;而其他级的效率下降幅度较少,最大降幅不超过0.6%。此外,研究了第1级及第5级转子叶片阻尼台对多级压气机性能影响,分析了阻尼台对流场结构及流通能力的影响,揭示了阻尼台影响性能的机理。研究结果表明,当存在阻尼台时,多级轴流压气机的峰值效率、峰值压比以及堵塞质量流量都会下降,其中峰值效率下降了1.6%,峰值压比下降了1.2%,堵塞质量流量下降了1.2%;尤其是第1级和第5级效率明显下降,第1级级效率下降约5.2%,第5级级效率下降约1.6%。在阻尼台存在的地方总压损失大,密流值会降低,流通能力会下降。     

Double-decoupled inverse design of natural laminar flow nacelle under transonic conditions

The inverse design based on the pressure distribution is an essential approach to realize the improvement of Natural Laminar Flow(NLF) performance for nacelles. However, the direct definition of target pressure distribution at design point is challenging for the dilemma to consider the constraints of shock wave and laminar flow at the same time. In addition, the universality of method will be limited when the inverse design is strongly coupled with the solver. Thus, a double-decoupled methodolog...     

Factor graph based navigation and positioning for control system design: A review

Navigation and positioning is an important and challenging problem in many control engineering applications. It provides feedback information to design controllers for systems. In this paper, a bibliographical review on factor graph based navigation and positioning is presented. More specifically, the sensor modeling, the factor graph optimization methods, and the topology factor based cooperative localization are reviewed. The navigation and positioning methods via factor graph are considered a...     

Revisiting the space-time gradient method: A time-clocking perspective,high order difference time discretization and comparison with the harmonic balance method

This paper revisits the Space-Time Gradient (STG) method which was developed for efficient analysis of unsteady flows due to rotor–stator interaction and presents the method from an alternative time-clocking perspective. The STG method requires reordering of blade passages according to their relative clocking positions with respect to blades of an adjacent blade row. As the space-clocking is linked to an equivalent time-clocking, the passage reordering can be performed according to the alternative time-clocking. With the time-clocking perspective, unsteady flow solutions from different passages of the same blade row are mapped to flow solutions of the same passage at different time instants or phase angles. Accordingly, the time derivative of the unsteady flow equation is discretized in time directly, which is more natural than transforming the time derivative to a spatial one as with the original STG method. To improve the solution accuracy, a ninth order difference scheme has been investigated for discretizing the time derivative. To achieve a stable solution for the high order scheme, the implicit solution method of Lower-Upper Symmetric Gauss-Seidel/Gauss-Seidel (LU-SGS/GS) has been employed. The NASA Stage 35 and its blade-count-reduced variant are used to demonstrate the validity of the time-clocking based passage reordering and the advantages of the high order difference scheme for the STG method. Results from an existing harmonic balance flow solver are also provided to contrast the two methods in terms of solution stability and computational cost.     

A methodology for multi-objective design assessment and flight control synthesis tuning

Flight control law design is a multi-variable control problem where various strict requirements from multiple disciplines have to be satisfied. This paper describes quality function deployment and its use in multi-objective control synthesis tuning and design assessment, with application to flight control design. The main feature of this methodology is that the various kinds of design objectives can be taken into account in their most natural form and design alternatives can be assessed most visibly with respect to given requirements. Multi-objective synthesis tuning by min-max parameter optimisation allows interactive compromising in the set of what can be best-possibly achieved with a chosen control law structure.