Machine-Learning-Enabled Foil Design Assistant

Kostas, Konstantinos V.; Manousaridou, Maria

doi:10.3390/jmse11071470

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“…Specifically, as performance metrics, such as lift or drag coefficients, typically require computationally intensive simulations, their correlation to shape information captured by geometric moments enable us to introduce physicsrelated quantities without the computational burden ensued by CFD simulations. This approach has also been recently demonstrated in [30] for the case of airfoil and hydrofoil performance prediction and optimization where geometric moments have been included as input/output features when training the neural network models presented therein.…”

Section: Geometric Momentsmentioning

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Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

Masood,

Kostas,

Khan

et al. 2023

JMSE

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Parametric models have been widely used in pertinent literature for reconstructing, modifying and representing a wide range of airfoil and/or hydrofoil profile geometries. Design spaces corresponding to these models can be exploited for modeling and profile-shape optimization under various performance criteria. Accuracy requirements, along with the need for modeling local features, often lead to high-dimensional design spaces that hinder the process of shape optimization and design through analysis. In this work, we propose a shape-informed dimensional reduction approach that attempts to tackle this deficiency by producing low-dimensional latent design spaces that can be efficiently used in shape representation and optimization. Furthermore, geometric moments are introduced in an attempt to cost-effectively capture analysis-relevant information that is generally expensive to produce. Specifically, geometric integral properties, although intrinsic features of the shape, are quite commonly related to performance indicators employed in performance optimization and therefore provide a cost-effective physics-informed component in the description of the design in the latent space. To this end, we employ the generalized Karhunen-Loève expansion to produce a shape- and physics-informed subspace retaining the highest possible geometric variance and robustness, that is, a lack of invalid designs. At the same time, a series of shape discretizations, encoding the foil’s shape profile, are examined with regard to their effect on the resulting latent space’s quality and efficiency. Our results demonstrate a significant reduction in the dimensionality of the original design space while maintaining a high representational capacity and a large percentage of valid geometries that facilitate fast convergence to optimal solutions in performance-based optimization.

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Section: Geometric Momentsmentioning

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Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

Masood,

Kostas,

Khan

et al. 2023

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“…[2] and subsequently extended to encompass a broader range of designs in Refs. [36,37], has been extensively used in the generation of D 1 . The parametric model proposed by Kostas et al in Ref.…”

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Generative vs. Non-Generative Models in Engineering Shape Optimization

Masood,

Usama,

Khan

et al. 2024

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Generative models offer design diversity but tend to be computationally expensive, while non-generative models are computationally cost-effective but produce less diverse and often invalid designs. However, the limitations of non-generative models can be overcome with the introduction of augmented shape signature vectors (SSVs) to represent both geometric and physical information. This recent advancement has inspired a systematic comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of generative and non-generative models in constructing design spaces for novel and efficient design exploration and shape optimization, which is demonstrated in this work. These models are showcased in airfoil/hydrofoil design, and a comparison of the resulting design spaces is conducted in this work. A conventional generative adversarial network (GAN) and a state-of-the-art generative model, the performance-augmented diverse generative adversarial network (PaDGAN), are juxtaposed with a linear non-generative model based on the coupling of the Karhunen–Loève Expansion and a physics-informed shape signature vector (SSV-KLE). The comparison demonstrates that, with an appropriate shape encoding and a physics-augmented design space, non-generative models have the potential to cost-effectively generate high-performing valid designs with enhanced coverage of the design space. In this work, both approaches were applied to two large foil profile datasets comprising real-world and artificial designs generated through either a profile-generating parametric model or a deep-learning approach. These datasets were further enriched with integral properties of their members’ shapes, as well as physics-informed parameters. The obtained results illustrate that the design spaces constructed by the non-generative model outperform the generative model in terms of design validity, generating robust latent spaces with no or significantly fewer invalid designs when compared to generative models. The performance and diversity of the generated designs were compared to provide further insights about the quality of the resulting spaces. These findings can aid the engineering design community in making informed decisions when constructing design spaces for shape optimization, as it has been demonstrated that, under certain conditions, computationally inexpensive approaches can closely match or even outperform state-of-the art generative models.

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Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

Masood,

Kostas,

Khan

et al. 2023

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Parametric models have been widely used in pertinent literature for reconstructing, modifying and representing a wide range of airfoil and/or hydrofoil profile geometries. Design spaces corresponding to these models can be exploited for modeling and profile-shape optimization under various performance criteria. Accuracy requirements, along with the need for modeling local features, often lead to high-dimensional design spaces that hinder the process of shape optimization and design through analysis. In this work, we propose a shape-informed dimensional reduction approach that attempts to tackle this deficiency by producing low-dimensional latent design spaces that can be efficiently used in shape representation and optimization. Furthermore, geometric moments are introduced in an attempt to cost-effectively capture analysis-relevant information that is generally expensive to produce. Specifically, geometric integral properties, although intrinsic features of the shape, are quite commonly related to performance indicators employed in performance optimization and therefore provide a cost-effective physics-informed component in the description of the design in the latent space. To this end, we employ the generalized Karhunen-Loeve expansion to produce a shape- and physics-informed subspace retaining the highest possible geometric variance and robustness, that is, lack of invalid designs. At the same time, a series of shape discretizations, encoding the foil's shape profile, are examined with regards to their effect on the resulting latent space's quality and efficiency. Our results demonstrate a significant reduction in the dimensionality of the original design space while maintaining a high representational capacity and a large percentage of valid geometries that facilitate fast convergence to optimal solutions in performance-based optimization.

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Machine-Learning-Enabled Foil Design Assistant

Cited by 3 publications

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Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

Generative vs. Non-Generative Models in Engineering Shape Optimization

Shape-Informed Dimensional Reduction in Airfoil/Hydrofoil Modeling

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