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Main Authors: Rao, Anagha G, S, Umesh Siddarth U, Rao, Srisha M V
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07462
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author Rao, Anagha G
S, Umesh Siddarth U
Rao, Srisha M V
author_facet Rao, Anagha G
S, Umesh Siddarth U
Rao, Srisha M V
contents Streamline tracing in conical hypersonic flows is essential for designing high-performance waverider and intake. Conventionally, the streamline equations are solved after obtaining the velocity field from the solution of the axisymmetric conical flow field. The hypersonic waverider shape is generated from the base conical flow field by repeatedly applying the streamline tracing approach along several planes. When exploring the design space for optimization of the waverider, streamline tracing can be computationally expensive. We provide a novel strategy where first the Taylor-Maccoll equations for the inviscid axisymmetric conical flowfield and the streamlines from the shock are solved for a wide range of cone angle and Mach number conditions resulting in an extensive database. The streamlines are parametrized by a third-order polynomial, and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained to predict the coefficients of the polynomial for arbitrary inputs of Mach number, cone angle, and streamline originating location on the shock . We apply this strategy to design a cone derived waverider and compare the geometry obtained with the standard conical waverider design method and the simplified waverider design method. The ANN technique is highly accurate, with a difference of 0.68% with the standard in the coordinates of the waverider. RANS computations show that the ANN derived waverider does not indicate severe flow spillage at the leading edge, which is observed in the waverider generated from the simplified method. The new ANN-based approach is 20 times faster than the conventional method.
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spellingShingle A novel Artificial Neural Network-based streamline tracing strategy applied to hypersonic waverider design
Rao, Anagha G
S, Umesh Siddarth U
Rao, Srisha M V
Fluid Dynamics
Streamline tracing in conical hypersonic flows is essential for designing high-performance waverider and intake. Conventionally, the streamline equations are solved after obtaining the velocity field from the solution of the axisymmetric conical flow field. The hypersonic waverider shape is generated from the base conical flow field by repeatedly applying the streamline tracing approach along several planes. When exploring the design space for optimization of the waverider, streamline tracing can be computationally expensive. We provide a novel strategy where first the Taylor-Maccoll equations for the inviscid axisymmetric conical flowfield and the streamlines from the shock are solved for a wide range of cone angle and Mach number conditions resulting in an extensive database. The streamlines are parametrized by a third-order polynomial, and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained to predict the coefficients of the polynomial for arbitrary inputs of Mach number, cone angle, and streamline originating location on the shock . We apply this strategy to design a cone derived waverider and compare the geometry obtained with the standard conical waverider design method and the simplified waverider design method. The ANN technique is highly accurate, with a difference of 0.68% with the standard in the coordinates of the waverider. RANS computations show that the ANN derived waverider does not indicate severe flow spillage at the leading edge, which is observed in the waverider generated from the simplified method. The new ANN-based approach is 20 times faster than the conventional method.
title A novel Artificial Neural Network-based streamline tracing strategy applied to hypersonic waverider design
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07462