Gated Neural Network-Based Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling for Large Angles of Attack

Modeling of unsteady aerodynamic loads at high angles of attack using a small amount of experimental or simulation data to construct predictive models for unknown states can greatly improve the efficiency of aircraft unsteady aerodynamic design and flight dynamics analysis.In this paper,aiming at the problems of poor generalization of traditional aerodynamic models and intelligent models,an intelligent aerodynamic modeling method based on gated neural units is proposed.The time memory characteristics of the gated neural unit is fully utilized,thus the nonlinear flow field characterization ability of the learning and training process is enhanced,and the generalization ability of the whole prediction model is improved.The prediction and verification of the model are carried out under the maneuvering flight condition of NACA0015 airfoil.The results show that the model has good adaptability.In the interpolation prediction,the maximum prediction error of the lift and drag coefficients and the moment coefficient does not exceed 10%,which can basically represent the variation characteristics of the entire flow field.In the construction of extrapolation models,the training model based on the strong nonlinear data has good accuracy for weak nonlinear prediction.Furthermore,the error is larger,even exceeding 20%,which indicates that the extrapolation and generalization capabilities need to be further optimized by integrating physical models.Compared with the conventional state space equation model,the proposed method can improve the extrapolation accuracy and efficiency by 78%and 60%,respectively,which demonstrates the applied potential of this method in aerodynamic modeling.

ASYMMETRIC VORTICES FLOW OVER SLENDER BODY AND ITS ACTIVE CONTROL AT HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK

The studies of asymmetric vortices flow over slender body and its active control at high angles of attack have significant importance for both academic field and engineering area.This paper attempts to provide an update state of art to the investigations on the fields of forebody asymmetric vortices.This review emphasizes the correlation between micro-perturbation on the model nose and its response and evolution behaviors of the asymmetric vortices.The critical issues are discussed, which include the formation and evolution mechanism of asymmetric multi-vortices;main behaviors of asymmetric vortices flow including its deterministic feature and vortices flow structure;the evolution and development of asymmetric vortices under the perturbation on the model nose;forebody vortex active control especially discussed micro-perturbation active control concept and technique in more detail.However present understanding in this area is still very limited and this paper tries to identify the key unknown problems in the concluding remarks.

Control of Asymmetric Flow Fields of Slender Bodies at High Angle of Attack

The wind tunnel experiments is conducted to get inspiration for understanding the mechanism of the asymmetric flow pattern and developing an innovative flow control technique for a slender body at high angle of attack. The bi-stable situation of the side forces is observed, which could be easily switched by a tiny disturbances either from coming flow or from artificial disturbances at nose tip （including manufacturing defect）. In turbulent flows the side forces switched randomly between positive and negative. There exists a hysteresis loop of side force with the rolling angle. A rod in front of the slender body is used to change the vortex pattern, which could be kept even the rod is moved out from the stream. A miniature strake attached to the nose tip of the model can be moved to different circumferential position. When the strake is stationary, the hysteresis loop disappears and the side force does not change with the turbulent fluctuation of coming flow. The results from dynamic measurements of section side force indicates that when the strake swung at lower frequency the side force can follow the cadence of the swinging strake. With increasing frequency, the magnitude of the side force decreases. At still high frequency, the side force diminishes to zero. If the strake is swinging, while the middle position can be changed to different circumferential angle Фs on either left or right side, the side forces can be changed proportionally with the angle Фs. On the basis of the experimental results, the mechanism of the asymmetry is discussed.

COMPUTATION OF FIELD STRUCTURE AND AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DELTA WINGS AT HIGH ANGLES OF ATTACK

A numerical investigation of the structure of the vortical flowfield over delta wings at high angles of attack in longitudinal and with small sideslip angle is presented. Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes numerical simulations were carried out to predict the complex leeward-side flowfield characteristics that are dominated by the effect of the breakdown of the leading-edge vortices. The methods that analyze the flowfield structure quantitatively were given by using flowfield data from the computational results. In the region before the vortex breakdown, the vortex axes are approximated as being straight line. As the angle of attack increases, the vortex axes are closer to the root chord, and farther away from the wing surface. Along the vortex axes, as the adverse pressure gradients occur, the axial velocity decreases, that is, A is negativee, so the vortex is unstable, and it is possible to breakdown. The occurrence of the breakdown results in the instability of lateral motion for a delta wing, and the lateral moment diverges after a small perturbation occurs at high angles of attack. However, after a critical angle of attack is reached the vortices breakdown completely at the wing apex, and the instability resulting from the vortex breakdown disappears.

Control for Underactuated Reentry Aircraft in Small Angle of Attack

The control problem for under-actuated reentry vehicle like HTV-2 is considered with small angle of attack.The control strategy for an aircraft with positive lateral control departure parameter relies on strong lateral stability,which declines with the decrease of the angle of attack.Thus,to control the lateral-directional motion in a stable state is hard and even impossible in some scenarios where the under-actuated reentry vehicle,like HTV-2,flies in a low angle of attack.To address this problem,the lateral-directional open-loop motion characteristics are analyzed.The results show that in an uncontrolled state,the lateral-directional motion can automatically converge to stabilization thanks to the aerodynamic damping effect.Therefore,a method of turning-off the lateral-directional control and inviting aerodynamic damping to control can achieve stability.The six-degree-of-freedom simulation show that the lateral-directional motion can be stabilized by the aerodynamic damping,and the lateral position error caused by the bank angle deviation is limited near the zero-rise angle of attack.The control strategy is effective.

Experimental study on aerodynamic characteristics of a high-speed train on viaducts in turbulent crosswinds

In this study, experiments were carried out to investigate aerodynamic characteristics of a high-speed train on viaducts in turbulent crosswinds using a 1:25 scaled sectional model wind-tunnel testing. Pressure measurements of two typical sections, one train-head section and one train-body section, at the windward and leeward tracks were conducted under the smooth and turbulence flows with wind attack angles between-6° and 6°, and the corresponding aerodynamic force coefficients were also calculated using the integral method. The experimental results indicate that the track position affects the mean aerodynamic characteristics of the vehicle, especially for the train-body section. The fluctuating pressure coefficients at the leeward track are more significantly affected by the bridge interference compared to those at the windward track. The effect of turbulence on the train-head section is less than that on the train-body section. Additionally, the mean aerodynamic force coefficients are almost negatively correlated to wind attack angles, which is more prominent for vehicles at the leeward track. Moreover, the lateral force plays a critical role in determining the corresponding overturning moment, especially on the train-body section.

Stability analyses of the mass abrasive projectile high-speed penetrating into concrete target. Part Ⅱ: Structural stability analyses

The initial oblique and attacking angles as well as the asymmetrical nose abrasion may lead to bending or even fracture of a projectile,and the penetration efficiency decreases distinctly.The structural stability of a high-speed projectile non-normally penetrating into concrete and the parametric influences involved are analyzed with the mass abrasion taken into account.By considering the symmetrical or asymmetrical nose abrasion as well as the initial oblique and attacking angles,both the axial and the transverse drag forces acting on the projectile are derived.Based on the ideal elastic-plastic yield criterion,an approach is proposed for predicting the limit striking velocity（LSV）that is the highest velocity at which no yielding failure has occurred and the projectile can still maintain its integral structural stability.Furthermore,some particular penetration scenarios are separately discussed in detail.Based on the engineering model for the mass loss and nose-blunting of ogive-nose projectiles established in Part I of this study,the above approach is validated by several high-speed penetration tests.The analysis on parametric influences indicates that the LSV is reduced with an increase in the asymmetrical nose abrasion,thelength-diameter-ratio,and the concrete strength,as well as the oblique and attacking angles.Also,the LSV raises with an increase in the initial caliber-radius-head（CRH）and the dimensionless cartridge thickness of a projectile.

Opening Angle Rules of the Aerodynamic Brake Panel

In order to get the relationship between aerodynamic brake effect and the opening angle,based on a high-speed train model in CFD software FLUENT,the aerodynamic force properties from brake panels with different opening angles were analyzed as well as the flow field's variation laws. Six cases were researched,taking opening angles 45°,60°,75°,80°,85° and 90° respectively.Three-dimensional Reynolds-average Navier-Stokes equation combined with k-ε turbulence model was utilized. The control equation was discretized and solved by finite volume method.SIMPLE method was also considered to couple the pressure and velocity fields and search the numeric solutions. Conclusions can be achieved from the results which are shown as follows. When the opening angle increases from 45° to 75°,the aerodynamic forces and the central area with larger pressure increase fast,and the flow field distribution changes greatly; when the opening angle increases from75° to 90°,the aerodynamic forces and the central area with larger pressure increase slowly, and the flow field distribution changes slightly; considering train boundary and opening performance of the wind resistance brake mechanism,the opening angle should be 75°.

INFLUENCE OF NOSE PERTURBATIONS ON BEHAVIORS OF ASYMMETRIC VORTICES OVER SLENDER BODY

The influence of nose perturbations on the behaviors of asymmetric vortices over a slender body with a three-caliber ogive nose is studied in this paper. The tests of a nose-disturbed slender body with surface pressure measurement were conducted at a low speed wind tunnel with subcritical Reynolds number of 1×105 at angle of attack α=50°. The experiment results show that the behaviors and structure of asymmetric vortices over the slender body are mainly controlled by manual perturbation on the nose of body as compared with geometrical minute irregularities on the test model from the machining tolerances. The effect of the perturbation axial location on asymmetric vortices is the strongest if its location is near the model apex. There are four sensitive circumferential locations of manual perturbation at which bistable vortices over the slender body are switched by the perturbation. The flowfield near the reattachment line of lee side is more sensitive to the perturbation, because the saddle point to saddle point topological structure in this reattachment flowfield is unstable. Various types of perturbation do not change the perturbation effect on the behaviors of bistable asymmetric vortices.

Recent progress on the study of asymmetric vortex flow over slender bodies

The investigations of forebody vortex flow and its flow control have great importance in both academic field and engineering application areas. A large number of papers and many review papers have been published. However in this research field of forebody asymmetric vortices, three problems such as tip perturbation effect, Reynolds number effect and flow instability are less studied and thus not understood completely. So many researches are still working on the issues in recent years. The present paper attempts to provide a review of recent research progress on first two problems. The first problem is mainly concerned with how the vortex flow evolves after tip perturbation; how to solve the problem of repeatability and reproducibility of wind tunnel testing data; how to develop a conception of active flow control technique with tip perturbation based on the study of vortex flow response to tip perturbation. For the second problem one is mainly concerned that how the asymmetric vortices are developed with the increase of Reynolds number; how to classify the vortex flow patterns in different Reynolds number regimes; how to develop an appropriate boundary layer transition technique to simulate flows at high Reynolds number in the convention wind tunnels. Finally, some important ques- tions that deserve answers are proposed in the concluding remarks.

Effects of tip perturbation and wing locations on rolling oscillation induced by forebody vortices

The wing rock motion is frequently suffered by a wing-body configuration with low swept wing at high angle of attack. It is found from our experimental study that the tip perturbation and wing longitudinal locations affect significantly the wing rock motion of a wing-body. The natural tip perturbation would make the wing rock motion of a nondeterministic nature and an artificial mini-tip perturbation would make the wing rock motion deterministic. The artificial tip perturbation would, as its circumferential location is varied, generate three different types of motion patterns： （1） limit cycle oscillation, （2） irregular oscillation, （3） equilibrium state with tiny oscillation. The amplitude of rolling oscillation corresponding to the limit cycle oscillatory motion pattern is decreased with the wing location shifting downstream along the body axis.

Optimization of projectile state and trajectory of reentry body considering attainment of carrying aircraft

As an improvement of traditional maximum range trajectory optimization, both the projectile state and control sequence of reentry body are optimized to achieve the maximum range. To ensure the optimal projectile state is in the reachable domain of the carrying aircraft, the climb of the carrying aircraft and the flight of reentry body are optimized as a whole based on the hp-adaptive pseudospectral method. Meanwhile, the path constraints, control constraints and initial/terminal states constraints are considered in the optimization as well. In face of the fact that the range of the optimal control solution resulted from the pseudospectral method may be unsmooth, virtual control variables (second derivatives of the angle of attack and bank angle) are proposed in the optimization, while the angle of attack and bank angle are treated as the virtual state variables to guarantee the smoothness of the optimal control solution. The validity of the virtual control variables in smoothing the optimal control solution is verified by simulation, and the optimality of the resulting projectile state and control sequence for reaching the maximum range is confirmed using the indirect approach. © 1990-2011 Beijing Institute of Aerospace Information.

A novel MAV with treadmill motion of wing

The Magnus effect is well known phenomena for producing high lift values from spinning symmetrical geometries such as cylinders, spheres, or disks. But, the Magnus force may also be produced by treadmill motion of aerodynamic bodies. To accomplish this, the skin of aerodynamic bodies may circulate with a constant circumferential speed. Here, a novel wing with treadmill motion of skin is introduced which may generate lift at zero air speeds. The new wing may lead to micro aerial vehicle configurations for vertical take-off or landing. To prove the concept, the NACA0015 aerofoil section with circulating skin is computationally investigated. Two cases of stationary air and moving air are studied. It is observed that lift can be generated in stationary air although drag force is also high. For moving air, the lift and drag forces may be adopted between the incidence angles 20° to 25° where lift can posses high values and drag can remain moderate.

考虑风速纵、横分量的列车气动载荷变化特性

为探索侧向环境风作用下列车气动载荷变化特性,对任意风向角下随车移动点处的风速纵、横分量进行建模,研究考虑风速纵、横分量的列车气动载荷计算方法,并分析在列车速度200~400 km/h、平均风速10~35 m/s及风向角30°~150°时的列车气动载荷特性.研究发现:在不同风向角下,考虑风速横向分量后,高速列车气动载荷波动变大,作用于列车上的瞬时气动载荷极值增大;风速横向分量主要影响列车气动载荷的标准差,且影响程度与风向角有关;随着风向角接近临界风向角,风速横向分量对列车气动载荷标准差的影响逐渐变小,随着风向角远离临界风向角,风速横向分量对列车气动载荷标准差的影响逐渐变大;列车气动载荷的标准差/均值主要与侧偏角有关,且在风向角为30°及150°时较大,其次是风向角60°和120°,而在风向角90°时则较小.

风向角对高速列车驶出隧道过程中气动效应的影响

为研究风向角对驶出隧道过程中高速列车气动效应的影响,以某型高速动车组列车为研究对象,采用数值模拟方法对隧道内气动压力、列车风风速、流场分布及列车气动荷载进行分析。通过与动模型试验结果进出对比,验证数值模拟方法的准确性。研究结果表明:隧道壁面气动压力峰值及变化幅值最大值出现在隧道内部,且出现位置到隧道出口距离与风向角有关;背风侧气动压力受风向角影响更大,气动压力变化幅值随风向角增大呈现先减小后增大再减小的趋势;出口处列车风风速随风向角增大基本呈现先增大后减小的趋势,30°风向角时列车风风速最大,但迎、背风侧列车风风速峰值出现时刻不同;随着风向角增大,流场分布不对称性增强,列车绕流特性由流线型绕流逐渐过渡到钝体绕流,流动分离点到头车鼻尖的距离呈现先增大后减小最后再增大的变化规律,隧道内流动结构愈加复杂;气动横向力、升力变化幅值随风向角增加呈现先增后减趋势,头车横向力系数最大变化幅值分别是中车、尾车的2.4倍和2.6倍,升力系数最大变化幅值分别是中车、尾车的1.1倍和1.5倍,故保证头车安全是控制整车运行安全的关键;侧风下高速列车驶出隧道情形下的最不利风向角为30°,此时头车发生列车事故风险最高。

考虑弹头滚转姿态变化影响的防热层厚度优化

基于气动热/结构温度响应耦合计算方法,研究了弹头固定攻角再入条件下锥身典型子午面结构温度响应特性,以及滚转姿态变化时刻对各子午面结构温度响应的影响,建立了考虑弹头滚转姿态变化影响的防热层厚度优化方法,并基于该方法开展了弹头防热层厚度优化。最后,研究了滚转姿态变化次数对优化效果的影响。结果表明:在再入弹道前段进行滚转姿态变化可使外壁面气动加热量更为合理,有效降低弹体锥身壳体内壁面温升。当迎、背风面壳体内壁面最大温升约束为25 K时,与无滚转姿态变化状态下相比,滚转姿态变化设计可使防热层厚度减小0.725 mm,减小幅度为5.4%。通过与滚转姿态变化时刻的联合设计可有效降低锥身防热层厚度。与单次滚转姿态变化时相比,两次滚转姿态变化时防热层厚度减小量仅增大1.9%,增加滚转姿态变化次数对优化效果影响较小。

A physical model of asymmetric vortices flow structure in regular state over slender body at high angle of attack

In subcritical Reyolds number flow region, the repeatable and determinate asymmetric vortices flow at regular state can be obtained by manually setting mini-perturbation on the nose of a pointed ogive-cylinder model at high angle of attack and zero side slip. Test results of this study involve surface pressure distributions, sectional-side-force distributions and flow visualizations. The analyses of these results revealed a complicated multi-vortices system at regular state inwhich asymmetric twin vortices with inception region and fully developed region, asymmetric triple vortices, four vortices region, five vortices region and Karman-vortex-street-like flow region aredeveloped along the slender body. The correlation between multi-vortices system structures and corresponding sectional-side-force distribution is given. The behaviors of multi-vortices flow struc-ture at the peculiar points of sectional-side-force distributions and characteristics of corresponding pressure distribution are analysed. Finally, a physical model of asymmetric multi-vortices flowstructure in regular state over slender body is developed.

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling at high angles of attack using support vector machines

Abstract Accurate aerodynamic models are the basis of flight simulation and control law design. Mathematically modeling unsteady aerodynamics at high angles of attack bears great difficulties in model structure determination and parameter estimation due to little understanding of the flow mechanism. Support vector machines （SVMs） based on statistical learning theory provide a novel tool for nonlinear system modeling. The work presented here examines the feasibility of applying SVMs to high angle.-of-attack unsteady aerodynamic modeling field. Mainly, after a review of SVMs, several issues associated with unsteady aerodynamic modeling by use of SVMs are discussed in detail, such as sele, ction of input variables, selection of output variables and determination of SVM parameters. The least squares SVM （LS-SVM） models are set up from certain dynamic wind tunnel test data of a delta wing and an aircraft configuration, and then used to predict the aerodynamic responses in other tests. The predictions are in good agreement with the test data, which indicates the satisfving learning and generalization performance of LS-SVMs.

平均载荷系数0.5一级的双模式压气机设计研究与验证

为全面提升压气机的研制能力,本文对平均载荷系数0.5一级的带单双外涵两种模式(双模式)核心驱动风扇的四级压气机开展了设计技术研究与验证。针对其平均级载荷系数高、两个模式性能变化大等特点,开展了双模式高负荷压气机设计、低损失大流量范围导叶设计以及低损失大攻角范围可调静子设计等技术研究工作,并在此基础上完成双模式核心驱动风扇与四级压气机的设计,开展0.8~1.0相对转速的三维特性分析,全面研究单双外涵两种模式下各级的匹配情况。试验结果表明:单双外涵两种模式下,压气机流量、压比、效率达到设计指标。单外涵模式1.0相对转速,最高效率0.874,双外涵模式0.924相对转速,最高效率0.87,两种模式下压气机流量调节范围达到31.4%。各级匹配良好,突破了双模式核心驱动风扇与压气机一体化匹配设计和平均载荷系数0.5一级的高负荷压缩部件设计等关键技术,为下一代发动机的核心压缩部件设计奠定了基础。

Study on flow behavior and structure over chined fuselage at high angle of attack

A study of leeward vortex structure over chined fuselage and the effects of micro tip perturbation on its vortex flow have been carried out in wind tunnel experiments at Reynolds numbers from 1.26×105 to 5.04×105 with PIV and pressure measurement techniques.Firstly,the experiment results have proved that micro tip perturbation has no effects on the vortex flow and its aerodynamic characteristics over chined fuselage at high angle of attack,in which there are not any non-deterministic flow behaviors.Secondly,the evolution of leeward vortex structure over chined fuselage along the axis of model can be divided into four flow regimes:linear conical developed regime,decay regime of leeward vortex intensity,asymmetric leeward vortex break down regime and completely break down regime.And a correlation between leeward vortex structure and sectional aerodynamic force was also revealed in the present paper.Thirdly,the experiment results show the behavior of leeward vortex core trajectories and zonal characteristics of leeward vortex structure with angles of attack.Finally,the experiment results of Reynolds number effect on the leeward vortex flow have further confirmed research conclusions from previous studies:the flows over chined fuselage at high angles of attack are insensitive to variation of Reynolds number,and there is a little effect on the secondary boundary layer separation and the suction peak induced by leeward vortex.