PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF AIRCRAFT LIFTING SURFACES USING SURROGATE MODELS
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Annotation: For the design of an aircraft wing, algorithms are required to determine the geometric parameters of the designed
lifting surface in order to provide the necessary values of integral design parameters that significantly affect flight
performance. In this paper, methods for creating metamodels for problems of aerodynamics based on the
approximation of data from numerical experiments are investigated. The use of these methods significantly
reduces the time spent on searching for optimal geometric characteristics of the wing, bypassing long-term
experimental studies on the influence of geometric parameters on the power characteristics of the considered
lifting surface. The aircraft development process consists of several stages, the most important of which is the
preliminary design, at which stage a decision is made on the viability of the aircraft development project. The first
stage is to develop a variant of the geometry of the aircraft, based on expert experience, then the calculation of the
main aerodynamic configuration parameters is carried out taking into account various flight conditions using
software tools and engineering methods. Experimental data obtained as a result of testing an aircraft model in a
wind tunnel is one of the important sources of information about aerodynamic properties. The third stage consists
in a detailed analysis of the obtained flight characteristics of the aircraft. Currently, the aviation industry needs
to move to a new technological approach based on the use of software for automated optimal design of aircraft
aerodynamics, taking into account their design features and limitations. Parametric modeling in specialized
computer-aided design systems allows you to speed up the process of generating technical proposals. Making
design decisions is an important stage, the purpose of which is to choose one of the possible options for the values
of the geometric model parameters. This choice is usually a compromise, as each option has its advantages and
disadvantages. In this paper, a method for constructing a surrogate model based on the kriging interpolation
method is developed. The proposed model makes it possible to analyze complex multiparametric problems of
aerodynamics. Using the example of the problem of two-dimensional flow around an airfoil, nonlinear
relationships of the main aerodynamic characteristics with the geometric parameters of the profile at different
speeds of the incoming flow were found.
Keywords: surrogate model, сomputational aerodynamics, Bézier curve, panel method, kriging regression
Page numbers: 4-12.
For citation: Moskovcev A.M., Petrov D.A. Preliminary design of aircraft lifting surfaces using surrogate models // Electronic Scientific Journal IT-Standard. – 2024. – No. 1. – pp. 4-12.