Influence of the number and location of design parameters in the aerodynamic shape optimization of a transonic aerofoil and a wing through evolutionary algorithms and support vector machines

1. Andrés-Pérez, Esther ³
2. González-Juárez, Daniel ²
3. Martin-Burgos, Mario J. ²
4. Carro-Calvo, Leopoldo ¹
5. Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho ¹

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DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2016.1165568 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Surrogate-based optimization (SBO) has recently found widespread use in aerodynamic shape design owing to its promising potential to speed up the whole process by the use of a low-cost objective function evaluation, to reduce the required number of expensive computational fluid dynamics simulations. However, the application of these SBO methods for industrial configurations still faces several challenges. The most crucial challenge nowadays is the ‘curse of dimensionality’, the ability of surrogates to handle a high number of design parameters. This article presents an application study on how the number and location of design variables may affect the surrogate-based design process and aims to draw conclusions on their ability to provide optimal shapes in an efficient manner. To do so, an optimization framework based on the combined use of a surrogate modelling technique (support vector machines for regression), an evolutionary algorithm and a volumetric non-uniform rational B-splines parameterization are applied to the shape optimization of a two-dimensional aerofoil (RAE 2822) and a three-dimensional wing (DPW) in transonic flow conditions.