It is of great significance to develop a high-efficiency and low-noise propeller optimization method for new-generation propeller aircraft design.Coupled with free form deformation method,dynamic mesh interpolation te...It is of great significance to develop a high-efficiency and low-noise propeller optimization method for new-generation propeller aircraft design.Coupled with free form deformation method,dynamic mesh interpolation technology,optimization algorithm,surrogate model,aerodynamic calculation and aeroacoustic prediction model module,the integrated aerodynamic and aeroacoustic design method of propeller is built.The optimization design for the six-blade propeller is carried out.The non-reduction in efficiency,thrust coefficient and the minimum of aerodynamic noise is treated as the optimization design objective.The spatial vorticity distribution of the propeller before and after the design is also analyzed by using unsteady computational fluid dynamics method.The results show that the optimized propeller can effectively reduce the aerodynamic noise level.The maximum total sound pressure level can be reduced by 5 dB without reducing its aerodynamic performance.The developed method has good application potential in low-noise optimization design of propeller and other rotating machinery.展开更多
This paper extends the adaptive moving mesh method developed by Tang and Tang[36]to two-dimensional(2D)relativistic hydrodynamic(RHD)equations.The algorithm consists of two“independent”parts:the time evolution of th...This paper extends the adaptive moving mesh method developed by Tang and Tang[36]to two-dimensional(2D)relativistic hydrodynamic(RHD)equations.The algorithm consists of two“independent”parts:the time evolution of the RHD equations and the(static)mesh iteration redistribution.In the first part,the RHD equations are discretized by using a high resolution finite volume scheme on the fixed but nonuniform meshes without the full characteristic decomposition of the governing equations.The second part is an iterative procedure.In each iteration,the mesh points are first redistributed,and then the cell averages of the conservative variables are remapped onto the new mesh in a conservative way.Several numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlik...An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlike the conventional parallel methods in which all processors use the same surface displacement and implement the same operation,the present method employs different surface points sets and influence radius for each volume point movement,accompanied with efficient geometry searching strategy.The deformed surface points,also called Control Points (CPs),are stored in each processor.The displacement of spatial points is interpolated by using only 20-50 nearest control points,and the local influence radius is set to 5-20 times the maximum displacement of control points.To shorten the searching time for the nearest control point clouds,an Alternating Digital Tree (ADT) algorithm for 3D complex geometry is designed based on an iterative bisection technique.Besides,an MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel approach is developed to reduce the memory cost in each High-Performance Computing (HPC) node for large-scale applications.Three 3D cases,including the ONERA-M6 wing and a commercial transport airplane standard model with up to 2.5 billion hybrid elements,are used to test the present mesh deformation method.The robustness and high parallel efficiency are demonstrated by a wing deflection case with a maximum bending angle of 450 and more than 80% parallel efficiency with 1024 MPI processors.In addition,the availability for both continuous and discontinuous surface deformation is verified by interpolating the projecting displacement with opposite directions surface points to the spatial points.展开更多
Aiming at a complex multi-block structured grid,an efficient dynamic mesh generation method is presented in this paper,which is based on radial basis functions(RBFs)and transfinite interpolation(TFI).When the object i...Aiming at a complex multi-block structured grid,an efficient dynamic mesh generation method is presented in this paper,which is based on radial basis functions(RBFs)and transfinite interpolation(TFI).When the object is moving,the multi-block structured grid would be changed.The fast mesh deformation is critical for numerical simulation.In this work,the dynamic mesh deformation is completed in two steps.At first,we select all block vertexes with known deformation as center points,and apply RBFs interpolation to get the grid deformation on block edges.Then,an arc-lengthbased TFI is employed to efficiently calculate the grid deformation on block faces and inside each block.The present approach can be well applied to both two-dimensional(2D)and three-dimensional(3D)problems.Numerical results show that the dynamic meshes for all test cases can be generated in an accurate and efficient manner.展开更多
文摘It is of great significance to develop a high-efficiency and low-noise propeller optimization method for new-generation propeller aircraft design.Coupled with free form deformation method,dynamic mesh interpolation technology,optimization algorithm,surrogate model,aerodynamic calculation and aeroacoustic prediction model module,the integrated aerodynamic and aeroacoustic design method of propeller is built.The optimization design for the six-blade propeller is carried out.The non-reduction in efficiency,thrust coefficient and the minimum of aerodynamic noise is treated as the optimization design objective.The spatial vorticity distribution of the propeller before and after the design is also analyzed by using unsteady computational fluid dynamics method.The results show that the optimized propeller can effectively reduce the aerodynamic noise level.The maximum total sound pressure level can be reduced by 5 dB without reducing its aerodynamic performance.The developed method has good application potential in low-noise optimization design of propeller and other rotating machinery.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10925101,10828101)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-07-0022)and the Doctoral Program of Education Ministry of China(No.20070001036).
文摘This paper extends the adaptive moving mesh method developed by Tang and Tang[36]to two-dimensional(2D)relativistic hydrodynamic(RHD)equations.The algorithm consists of two“independent”parts:the time evolution of the RHD equations and the(static)mesh iteration redistribution.In the first part,the RHD equations are discretized by using a high resolution finite volume scheme on the fixed but nonuniform meshes without the full characteristic decomposition of the governing equations.The second part is an iterative procedure.In each iteration,the mesh points are first redistributed,and then the cell averages of the conservative variables are remapped onto the new mesh in a conservative way.Several numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2016YFB0200701)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11532016 and 91530325)
文摘An efficient MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel Radial Basis Function (RBF) strategy for both continuous and discontinuous large-scale mesh deformation is proposed to reduce the computational cost and memory consumption.Unlike the conventional parallel methods in which all processors use the same surface displacement and implement the same operation,the present method employs different surface points sets and influence radius for each volume point movement,accompanied with efficient geometry searching strategy.The deformed surface points,also called Control Points (CPs),are stored in each processor.The displacement of spatial points is interpolated by using only 20-50 nearest control points,and the local influence radius is set to 5-20 times the maximum displacement of control points.To shorten the searching time for the nearest control point clouds,an Alternating Digital Tree (ADT) algorithm for 3D complex geometry is designed based on an iterative bisection technique.Besides,an MPI/OpenMP hybrid parallel approach is developed to reduce the memory cost in each High-Performance Computing (HPC) node for large-scale applications.Three 3D cases,including the ONERA-M6 wing and a commercial transport airplane standard model with up to 2.5 billion hybrid elements,are used to test the present mesh deformation method.The robustness and high parallel efficiency are demonstrated by a wing deflection case with a maximum bending angle of 450 and more than 80% parallel efficiency with 1024 MPI processors.In addition,the availability for both continuous and discontinuous surface deformation is verified by interpolating the projecting displacement with opposite directions surface points to the spatial points.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11372135)the National Basic Research Program of China(”973”Project)(Grant No.2014CB046200)the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
文摘Aiming at a complex multi-block structured grid,an efficient dynamic mesh generation method is presented in this paper,which is based on radial basis functions(RBFs)and transfinite interpolation(TFI).When the object is moving,the multi-block structured grid would be changed.The fast mesh deformation is critical for numerical simulation.In this work,the dynamic mesh deformation is completed in two steps.At first,we select all block vertexes with known deformation as center points,and apply RBFs interpolation to get the grid deformation on block edges.Then,an arc-lengthbased TFI is employed to efficiently calculate the grid deformation on block faces and inside each block.The present approach can be well applied to both two-dimensional(2D)and three-dimensional(3D)problems.Numerical results show that the dynamic meshes for all test cases can be generated in an accurate and efficient manner.
