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Main Authors: Sung, Nicholas, Spreizer, Steven, Elrefaie, Mohamed, Samuel, Kaira, Jones, Matthew C., Ahmed, Faez
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07209
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author Sung, Nicholas
Spreizer, Steven
Elrefaie, Mohamed
Samuel, Kaira
Jones, Matthew C.
Ahmed, Faez
author_facet Sung, Nicholas
Spreizer, Steven
Elrefaie, Mohamed
Samuel, Kaira
Jones, Matthew C.
Ahmed, Faez
contents BlendedNet is a publicly available aerodynamic dataset of 999 blended wing body (BWB) geometries. Each geometry is simulated across about nine flight conditions, yielding 8830 converged RANS cases with the Spalart-Allmaras model and 9 to 14 million cells per case. The dataset is generated by sampling geometric design parameters and flight conditions, and includes detailed pointwise surface quantities needed to study lift and drag. We also introduce an end-to-end surrogate framework for pointwise aerodynamic prediction. The pipeline first uses a permutation-invariant PointNet regressor to predict geometric parameters from sampled surface point clouds, then conditions a Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) network on the predicted parameters and flight conditions to predict pointwise coefficients Cp, Cfx, and Cfz. Experiments show low errors in surface predictions across diverse BWBs. BlendedNet addresses data scarcity for unconventional configurations and enables research on data-driven surrogate modeling for aerodynamic design.
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spellingShingle BlendedNet: A Blended Wing Body Aircraft Dataset and Surrogate Model for Aerodynamic Predictions
Sung, Nicholas
Spreizer, Steven
Elrefaie, Mohamed
Samuel, Kaira
Jones, Matthew C.
Ahmed, Faez
Artificial Intelligence
BlendedNet is a publicly available aerodynamic dataset of 999 blended wing body (BWB) geometries. Each geometry is simulated across about nine flight conditions, yielding 8830 converged RANS cases with the Spalart-Allmaras model and 9 to 14 million cells per case. The dataset is generated by sampling geometric design parameters and flight conditions, and includes detailed pointwise surface quantities needed to study lift and drag. We also introduce an end-to-end surrogate framework for pointwise aerodynamic prediction. The pipeline first uses a permutation-invariant PointNet regressor to predict geometric parameters from sampled surface point clouds, then conditions a Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) network on the predicted parameters and flight conditions to predict pointwise coefficients Cp, Cfx, and Cfz. Experiments show low errors in surface predictions across diverse BWBs. BlendedNet addresses data scarcity for unconventional configurations and enables research on data-driven surrogate modeling for aerodynamic design.
title BlendedNet: A Blended Wing Body Aircraft Dataset and Surrogate Model for Aerodynamic Predictions
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07209