New aircraft concepts are increasingly relying on non-traditional propulsion systems to achieve lower energy consumption. These non-traditional technologies, such as boundary layer ingestion or distributed electric propulsion, require a tight integration of the propulsion sys- tem to the airframe, and therefore, a traditional design approach where the aerodynamics and propulsion disciplines are considered separately is likely to result in sub-optimal designs. As a result, we have to rely on coupled aeropropulsive design optimization, in which fully coupled aeropropulsive models are optimized to maximize the advantages of these tightly integrated propulsion systems. Despite its advantages, aeropropulsive design optimization is a relatively new field, and significant advancements are required for wide adoption of this approach, especially in the context of robustness. In this work, we introduce two fully coupled aeropropulsive design optimization approaches that are compatible with CFD models with body-force terms and boundary conditions to model the effects of the propulsion system in the flow field. To test these new approaches, we developed a podded electric fan model based on the aft-propulsor of NASA’s STARC-ABL concept. This simple design problem enables us to rapidly develop and test different aeropropulsive coupling approaches, while including the challenging physical interactions that arise from coupling CFD and propulsion models. The coupled aeropropulsive model is implemented using the MPhys library, which is built with NASA’s OpenMDAO frame- work. Using this benchmark design problem, we demonstrate the robustness of the approaches and our aeropropulsive design optimization framework by performing a sweep of optimizations for a total of 50 CFD-based aeropropulsive design optimizations. Furthermore, the new aero- propulsive coupling approaches enable multi-point design optimizations. We demonstrate this capability in a multi-point design optimization problem where we optimize cruise performance subject to a fan-face distortion constraint at rolling take-off conditions. The aeropropulsive modeling approaches we present in this work represent a significant milestone in the field of aeropropulsive design optimization. The framework we developed is extremely robust and flexible, and these developments will be crucial for future aeropropulsive design optimizations of complete turbofan engines.


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    Titel :

    Coupled Aeropropulsive Design Optimization of a Podded Electric Propulsor


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    Kongress:

    AIAA Aviation Forum ; 2021 ; Online, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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