Machine Learning to Predict Aerodynamic Stall

Autor: Saetta, Ettore, Tognaccini, Renato, Iaccarino, Gianluca
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2023.2171021
Popis: A convolutional autoencoder is trained using a database of airfoil aerodynamic simulations and assessed in terms of overall accuracy and interpretability. The goal is to predict the stall and to investigate the ability of the autoencoder to distinguish between the linear and non-linear response of the airfoil pressure distribution to changes in the angle of attack. After a sensitivity analysis on the learning infrastructure, we investigate the latent space identified by the autoencoder targeting extreme compression rates, i.e. very low-dimensional reconstructions. We also propose a strategy to use the decoder to generate new synthetic airfoil geometries and aerodynamic solutions by interpolation and extrapolation in the latent representation learned by the autoencoder.
Comment: 15 pages, 22 figures
Databáze: arXiv