This paper deals with the development of suitable surrogate models for the acoustic assessment of the shielding effects due to engine installation on top of unconventional aircraft configurations. The interest of the aeronautic community towards finding solutions to reduce the environmental impact has increased tremendously in the last decade, in particular to reduce acoustic emissions. The Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE) has in fact set ambitious noise reduction targets for 2050, which can only be reached through important technological advances such as the development of highly innovative configurations. Among solutions proposed in literature, one of the most promising and most investigated is the Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft configurations. Because of the peculiar center-body shape of this concept, the engines can be installed on top of the aircraft, making its noise shielding properties particular appealing. Therefore, the choice of the optimal position of the engines to maximize the masking effect represents a crucial aspect that must be taken into account from the early design stages. However, as experimental and historical data are not available in this context, there are no alternative to perform direct simulations for the acoustic assessment needed in conceptual design phase, which would lead to an unacceptable increase of computational resources for optimization purposes. A possible solution is to limit the number of performed simulation by using them to develop metamodels based on stochastic radial basic functions for the evaluation of the acoustic shielding factor, instead of calculating the actual value at each call of the objective functions. Specifically, starting from few high-fidelity simulations by means of a bidimensional integral solver based on the convective Helmholtz equation, an adaptive metamodel is developed for the evaluation of the shielding factor of airfoils, which takes into account the variation of crucial design variables
Burghignoli, L., Rossetti, M., Centracchio, F., Iemma, U. (2019). Noise shielding metamodels based on stochastic radial basis functions. In Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2019. ;P.O. Box 74068 : Canadian Acoustical Association.
Noise shielding metamodels based on stochastic radial basis functions
Burghignoli L.;Rossetti M.;Centracchio F.;Iemma U.
2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper deals with the development of suitable surrogate models for the acoustic assessment of the shielding effects due to engine installation on top of unconventional aircraft configurations. The interest of the aeronautic community towards finding solutions to reduce the environmental impact has increased tremendously in the last decade, in particular to reduce acoustic emissions. The Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE) has in fact set ambitious noise reduction targets for 2050, which can only be reached through important technological advances such as the development of highly innovative configurations. Among solutions proposed in literature, one of the most promising and most investigated is the Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft configurations. Because of the peculiar center-body shape of this concept, the engines can be installed on top of the aircraft, making its noise shielding properties particular appealing. Therefore, the choice of the optimal position of the engines to maximize the masking effect represents a crucial aspect that must be taken into account from the early design stages. However, as experimental and historical data are not available in this context, there are no alternative to perform direct simulations for the acoustic assessment needed in conceptual design phase, which would lead to an unacceptable increase of computational resources for optimization purposes. A possible solution is to limit the number of performed simulation by using them to develop metamodels based on stochastic radial basic functions for the evaluation of the acoustic shielding factor, instead of calculating the actual value at each call of the objective functions. Specifically, starting from few high-fidelity simulations by means of a bidimensional integral solver based on the convective Helmholtz equation, an adaptive metamodel is developed for the evaluation of the shielding factor of airfoils, which takes into account the variation of crucial design variablesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
