Fast and accurate evaluation of aerodynamic characteristics is essential for aerodynamic design optimization because aircraft programs require many years of design and optimization. Therefore, it is imperative to develop sufficiently fast, robust, and accurate computational tools for industry routine analysis. This paper presents a nonintrusive machine-learning method for building reduced-order models (ROMs) using an autoencoder neural network architecture. An optimization framework was developed to identify the optimal solution by exploring the low-dimensional subspace generated by the trained autoencoder. To demonstrate the convergence, stability, and reliability of the ROM, a subsonic inverse design problem and a transonic drag minimization problem of the airfoil were studied and validated using two different parameterization strategies. The robustness and accuracy demonstrated by the method suggest that it is valuable in parametric studies, such as aerodynamic design and optimization, and requires only a small fraction of the cost of full-order modeling.


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    Title :

    Data-Driven Nonintrusive Model-Order Reduction for Aerodynamic Design Optimization


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 62 , 7 ; 2638-2658


    Publication date :

    2024-05-14


    Size :

    21 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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