Supersonic aircraft design is a computationally expensive optimization problem and multifidelity approaches over a significant opportunity to reduce design time and computational cost. This report presents tools developed to improve supersonic aircraft design capabilities including: aerodynamic tools for supersonic aircraft configurations; a systematic way to manage model uncertainty; and multifidelity model management concepts that incorporate uncertainty. The aerodynamic analysis tools developed are appropriate for use in a multifidelity optimization framework, and include four analysis routines to estimate the lift and drag of a supersonic airfoil, a multifidelity supersonic drag code that estimates the drag of aircraft configurations with three different methods: an area rule method, a panel method, and an Euler solver. In addition, five multifidelity optimization methods are developed, which include local and global methods as well as gradient-based and gradient-free techniques.


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    Title :

    Multifidelity Analysis and Optimization for Supersonic Design


    Contributors:
    I. Kroo (author) / K. Willcox (author) / A. March (author) / A. Haas (author) / D. Rajnarayan (author)

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    119 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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