Comparison of Optimization Strategies for High-Lift Design

摘要

The design of high-lift systems represents a challenging task within the aerospace community, being a multidisciplinary, multi-objective, and multipoint problem. The Design, Simulation and Flight Reynolds Number Testing for Advanced High-Lift Solution project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, aimed at improving the aerodynamics of high-lift systems by developing, in a coordinated approach, both efficient numerical design strategies and measurement techniques for cryogenic conditions. Within the Design, Simulation and Flight Reynolds Number Testing for Advanced High-Lift Solution project, different partners used several numerical automatic optimization strategies for high-lift system design purposes. A realistic multi-objective and multipoint optimization problem was defined and solved by adopting different flow model dimensionality, meshing techniques, geometry parameterization, and optimization strategies. Special attention was devoted to perform a fair comparison of the results, and useful information was obtained about trends, pros, and cons of the approaches used. The outcome of these activities is that an efficient design process can be set up through decoupling of the original multi-objective problem into several, sequential suboptimization processes. Nevertheless, several decoupling possibilities exist, and the most efficient one can be identified only on the bases of preanalysis or preknowledge of the specific problem. Second, the exercise carried out demonstrated the maturity and feasibility of a full three-dimensional automatic high-lift design.