Airfoil optimization based on an Evolution Strategy with respect to aeroelasticity

ECCOMAS 2004 - European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dietz, Guido ^a   Voß, Ralph ^a   De Breuker, Roeland ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aeroelasticity; Airfoil design; Evolution Strategy; Optimization; Transonic flow

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL DESIGN; AIRFOIL OPTIMIZATION; DRAG MINIMIZATION; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; FLUTTER BOUNDARIES; PRESSURE DISTURBANCE; PROPAGATION TIME; UNSTEADY AIRLOADS;

AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DRAG REDUCTION; ELASTIC WAVES; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); OPTIMIZATION; TRANSONIC FLOW;

AEROELASTICITY;

EID: 84893442398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. J. W. Edwards, R. M. Bennett, W. Whitlow, and D. A. Seidel. Time-marching transonic flutter solutions including angle-of-attack effects. J. Aircr., 20(11):899-906, 1983.
2. H. Tijdeman. Investigations of the Transonic Flow Around Oscillating Airfoils. Diss., Technische Hogeschool Delft, The Netherlands, 1977. Also NLR TR 77090.
3. G. Schewe, H. Mai, and G. Dietz. Nonlinear effects in transonic flutter with emphasis on manifestations of limit cycle oscillations. J. Fl. Str., 18(1):3-22, 2003.
4. G. Dietz, G. Schewe, and H. Mai. Experiments on heave/pitch limit-cycle oscillations of a supercritical airfoil close to the transonic dip. J. Fl. Str., 19(1):1-16, 2004.
5. H. Tijdeman and R. Seebass. Transonic flow past oscillating airfoils. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 12:181-222, 1980.
6. B. Naujoks, L. Willmes, W. Haase, T. Bäck, and M. Schütz. Multi-point airfoil optimization using evolution strategies. In Proc. European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering ECCOMAS, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
7. T. H. Pulliam, M. Nemec, T. Holst, and D. W. Zingg. Comparison of evolutionary (genetic) algorithm and adjoint methods for multi-objective viscous airfoil optimizations. AIAA 2003-0298, AIAA, 2003.
8. I. Rechenberg. Optimierung technischer Systeme nach Prinzipien der biologischen Evolution. Fromann-Holzboog, Stuttgart, Germany, 1973.
9. K. Naitoh, E. Krause, G. Dietz, and K. Kuwahara. Quality and level of the airfoil shapes obtained by using evolutional strategies - Meso-evolution certified by using the degeneracy structure method-. In Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000, Kyoto, Japan, 2001. Springer.
10. A. J. Chipperfield, P. J. Fleming, and C. M. Fonseca. Genetic algorithm tools for control systems engineering. In Adaptive Computing in Engineering Design and Control, Plymouth, UK, 1994.
11. M. Drela and M. B. Giles. Viscous-inviscid analysis of transonic and low Reynolds number airfoils. AIAA J., 25(10):1347-1355, 1987.
12. M. Drela. Newton solution of coupled viscous/inviscid multielement airfoil flows. AIAA 90-1470, AIAA, 1990.
13. T. Gerhold and J. Evans. Efficient computation of 3D-flows for complex configurations with the DLR TAU-code using automatic adaptation. In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Volume 72. Vieweg, 1999.
14. D. Schwamborn, T. Gerhold, and V. Hannemann. On the validation of the DLR TAU-code. In Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Volume 72. Vieweg, 1999.
15. P. R Spalart and S. R. Allmaras. A one-equation turbulence model for aerodynamic flows. AIAA 92-0439, AIAA, 1992.
16. R. Voß. Über die Ausbreitung akustischer Störungen in transsonischen Strömungsfeldern von Tragflü geln. Diss., Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, 1988. Also DFVLR-FB 88-13.
17. R. Voß. Calculation of 3-d unsteady transonic potential flows by a field panel method. In Proc. Int. Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, DGLR Bericht 85-02, pages 33-46, 1985.
18. S. Lu and R. Voß. TDLM - A transonic doublet lattice method for 3-d potential unsteady transonic flow calculation and its application to transonic flutter prediction. In Proc. Int. Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Volume 1, pages 77-95, Strasbourg, France, 1993.
19. C. Possio. L'azione aerodinamica sul profilo oscillante in un fluido compressibile a velo-cita iposonora. L'Aerotecnica, 18:441-458, 1938.
20. V. Carstens. Berechnung der instationären Druckverteilung an harmonisch schwingenden Gittern in ebener Unterschallströmung. IB 253-73 J06, DLR, 1973.
21. R. J. Zwaan. Summary of data required for the AGARD SMP activity "Standard Aeroela-stic Configurations," - Two-dimensional configurations. MP 79015 U, NLR, 1979.