A multidisciplinary, gradient-based sensitivity-analysis methodology is evaluated for optimization of rotorcraft configurations. The tightly coupled discipline models include physics-based fluid dynamics and rotorcraft comprehensive analysis. A discretely-consistent adjoint method accounts for sensitivities of the unsteady flow and unstructured, dynamic, over set grids, while sensitivities of structural responses to aerodynamic loads are computed using a complex-variable method. The methodology is applied to optimize the shape of UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter blades for hover and forward flight conditions. The objective of the multipoint design is to simultaneously increase the rotorcraft figure of merit in a hover flight and reduce the rotor power in a forward flight. Trimmed loose-coupling solutions for the baseline configuration are used to initiate the tight-coupling multidisciplinary analysis. Target thrust and rolling and pitching moments are enforced as optimization constraints. The optimized configuration improves the optimization metrics at both design points. The improved performance and all constraints are maintained over many revolutions beyond the optimization interval, satisfying the required flight conditions. Computational cost of the optimization cycle is assessed in a high-performance computing environment and found affordable for design of rotorcraft in general level-flight conditions.


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    Titel :

    High-Fidelity Multidisciplinary Sensitivity Analysis Framework for Multipoint Rotorcraft Optimization


    Beteiligte:
    Wang, Li (Autor:in) / Diskin, Boris (Autor:in) / Biedron, Robert T. (Autor:in) / Nielsen, Eric J. (Autor:in) / Sonneville, Valentin (Autor:in) / Bauchau, Olivier A. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    SciTech 2019 ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    07.01.2019


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch








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