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Aerodynamic Design of Integrated Propulsion-Airframe Configuration of the Hybrid Wing-Body Aircraft

GRC-E-DAA-TN43199 · NASA (NTRS) · 2017

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Overview

Hybrid Wing Body (HWB) aircraft is characterized by a flattened and airfoil-shaped body, which produces a substantial portion of the total lift. The body form is composed of distinct and separate wing structures, though the wings are smoothly blended into the body. This concept has been studied…

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GRC-E-DAA-TN43199
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2017
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Key points

  • The document discusses the aerodynamic design of the Hybrid Wing-Body (HWB) aircraft configuration with integrated propulsion systems.
  • It highlights the use of Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion (TeDP) featuring boundary layer ingestion and superconducting electric motors.
  • The optimization process aims to minimize drag while adhering to static stability constraints and improving aerodynamic performance.
  • The study indicates that almost 10 counts of drag reduction can be achieved through aerodynamic optimization of the HWB propulsion-airframe integration.
  • Future work will focus on refining design parameters and further investigating the impact of nacelle installation on aerodynamics and stability.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main objective of the aerodynamic design discussed in the document?

The main objective is to refine the parameterization strategy for complex integrated propulsion-airframe systems and to analyze the aerodynamic design under static stability constraints.

What propulsion system is utilized in the Hybrid Wing-Body aircraft?

The aircraft employs a Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion (TeDP) system, which includes features like boundary layer ingestion and superconducting electric motors.

What are the expected outcomes of the aerodynamic optimization process?

The optimization process is expected to achieve significant drag reduction, with the document noting that nearly 10 counts of drag reduction could be realized.

How does the nacelle installation affect the aircraft's performance?

The installation of the nacelle has a significant impact on aerodynamics, trim, and longitudinal stability, necessitating careful design considerations.

What methods are used for aerodynamic analysis in this study?

The study employs both Euler analysis for fast design optimization and RANS analysis for a more rigorous investigation of optimized configurations.

Document

Aerodynamic Design of Integrated Propulsion - Airframe

Configuration of the Hybrid Wing - Body Aircraft

† * ** †

May - Fun Liou , Hyoungjin Kim , BJ Lee and Meng - Sing Liou

NASA Glenn Research Center

* ** SAIC & Vantage Partners, LLC,

Cleveland, OH

AIAA Aviation 2017

June 5 - 9, 2017, Denver, Co.

Outline

• Background & Objectives

• Aerodynamics of Hybrid Wingbody - Propulsion System

• Technical Backgrounds

– Geometric Parameterization

– Mesh generation & deformation

• Optimization: Aero Performance & Constraints

• Analysis of Optimal Design

• Viscous Effects on Aerodynamic Performance

• Conclusion

Background – Far Term (beyond 2035)

• HWB (hybrid wingbody) configuration requirements

Distributed Electric Propulsion System

• Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion ( TeDP )

– Mail - slot nacelle near trailing edge

– Boundary Layer Ingestion into embedded propulsor fans

– Propulsor fans driven by superconducting electric motors

– Wingtip mounted superconducting turbo - generators

Propulsor and inlet - nozzle systems Felder, J., Kim, H. D., Brown, G. V., and Chu, J., “An Examination of the Effects of Boundary Layer Ingestion on Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion Systems,” AIAA – 2011 – 0300

Development of Technologies for Hybrid

Wing/body with Distributed Electric Propulsion

- 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 * N3 - X conceptual design N3X - Dep300 clean N3 - X with mailslot N3X - Dep300 with PAI Configurations N+2B inlet shape wing, 300 passenger nacelle nacelle (PAI) ** optimization cabin inlet A – BLI wall shaping mailslot n acelle cowl Inlet mailslot mailslot wall shaping cross wind analysis surface design GE R4 scaled single stage fan, Propulsor sizing /conceptual electri c fan design conceptual study of counter rotating fan unstructured iso – spring analogy unstructured aniso mesh Mesh crosschecked with overflow overset Parameterization NURBS CST / planform/inlet/nacelle NURBS Roe/AUSM+UP N3X - Analysis with body - force drag decomposition CFD Modeling SA/2 - eqs. turbulence models model trim modeling LUSGS & GMRES Optimization GBOM based on a djoint approach adjoint/NSGA - II Method *Jim Felder et al. AIAA – 2011 – 0300 Completed On - going & future works Current **Craig L. Nickol AIAA - 2012 - 0337

CFD flow - field of N3 - X with Fan Propulsor

st Flow field in the 1 slot with fan bodyforce model (2014) Total pressure contour FPR = 1.325 Static pressure contour Mass flow rate = 150.8kg/s/slot Mailslot top view Static pressure contour FLA ALF N3 - X powered by GE R4 distributed fan Kim et al. ISABE - 2015 - 20228 N3 - X mailslot modeling

Objective of the Present Work

• Further refine parameterization strategy for general complex

integrated propulsion - airframe system.

• Aerodynamic design under static stability constraints.

• Analysis and understanding of simulated flow - field

of the optimized configuration

Parameterization of Wing and Nacelle

Design sections of surface design and twist angles PAI configuration for present work

(we added 5 more sections for twist angle on red)

Free Stream Nacelle inlet Nacelle exit

Design with semi - span

• Horizontal region: 3D CST Main wing parameterization (CST – 4 sections) • Vertical region: 2D CST • Corner: elliptical shape connecting the two regions • Nacelle 6x8 • Main wing 60 (7x8+4 offset) • Twist 8 variables • Total : 124 design parameters Note: additionally, tip Section surface parameterization (CST) twist angle is used for • 8 parameters for each of upper & lower surfaces trim constraint and smooth spanwise • Minimization of L2 norm interpolation between • CST basis function (RHS) design sections, • Kulfan , B.,“Universal Parametric Geometry thickness constraint for Representation Method,” JA vol.45, No.1, 2008 cabin space are applied.

Parameterization of Airframe and Inlet

Example of aerodynamic shape optimization of nacelle

Inlet parameterization

Passage 1

Planform parameterization

Passage 4 N3 - X cowl shape design results: Comparison of sectional local Mach contours, Left: initial, Right: design.

(Kim et al. AIAA 2015 - 3805) Note: Theses inlet/nozzle and planform parameters are not used in the present work, it is used for previous design for the current baseline model and will be refined in the future study.

Mesh Generation & Deformation

• Mapping unstructured surface meshes on structured p3d (output of PAI configuration

generator)

• Spring analogy from surface mesh deformation to volume mesh deformation

Baseline surface mesh Baseline surface geometry (P3D) Mesh for RANS analysis Mesh for inviscid flow analysis

Longitudinal trim & static stability

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐦 ∶ 𝐹 = 0 ; 𝑀 = 0 𝑖 . 𝑒 . 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑔 = 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 & 𝑃𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑐 . 𝑔 . 𝑖𝑠 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 .

𝑥 𝑐𝑔

Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), Section 161 of PAR 23 : The

airplane must maintain longitudinal trim under each of the following

conditions: (1) A climb, (2) Level flight at all speeds, (3) A descent, (4) Approach.

Static margin : Pitching moment arm - Distance between Xc.g . and the Xa.c .; 𝐶 𝑀 𝛼

Mathematical expression - 𝐾 = −

𝑛 𝐶 𝐿 𝛼

Static stability : pitching moment changes caused by the perturbation in AOA revert the

aircraft back into trim, i.e. 𝐶 < 0 𝐾 >0

𝑀 𝑛 𝛼

Optimization : Aero Performance & Constraints

𝐶

Minimize: 𝐷

Subject to: 𝐶 = 𝐶 , 𝐶 = 𝐶 = 0 , Specified SM (baseline 4%MAC)

𝐿 𝐿 𝑀 𝑀 𝑇 𝑇

𝑅 ≥ 𝑅

𝐿𝐸 , 𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝐿𝐸 , 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒

𝑡 𝑐 ≥ 𝑡 𝑐

𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑚𝑎𝑥 , 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 for each design section

𝐶 = 𝐶 + 𝐶 ∆ 𝛼 + 𝐶 ∆ 𝜃

Minimize: 𝐷 𝐷 𝐷 𝐷 𝑤𝑡 0 𝛼 𝜃 − 1 𝐶 𝐶 𝐶 𝐶 ∆ 𝛼 ∆ 𝐶 ∆ 𝐶 ∆ 𝛼 𝐿 𝐿 𝐿 𝐿 𝐿 𝐿 𝛼 𝜃 𝛼 𝜃 = , = 𝐶 𝐶 𝐶 𝐶 ∆ 𝜃 ∆ 𝐶 ∆ 𝐶 ∆ 𝜃 𝑀 𝑀 𝑀 𝑀 𝑤𝑡 𝛼 𝑀 𝑀 𝛼 𝜃 𝑤𝑡 𝜃 Cabin (301 Passengers) layout for thickness constraint Craig L. Nickol AIAA - 2012 - 0337

Clean - wing Design

• Front loaded optimized wing Optimized Baseline • X moved from 38.21%c ( ○ ) CG to upstream ( 36.73%c ● ) • SM=9%MAC • Shock strength at TE is reduced

Clean - wing Design

• Baseline (26.3cnts) : (Induced drag): (wave drag) =87%:13% Optimized Baseline • 15% ( - 3.4 cnts ) induced drag reduction • 85% ( - 2.9 cnts ) wave drag reduction C C C +C Di Dw Di Dw Baseline 87.24% 12.76% 100.00% Optimized 74.36% 1.87% 76.23% delta - 12.88% - 10.89% - 23.77% - 6.3 counts

Propulsion Airframe Integration Design

• Baseline (43cnts) : Optimized Baseline (Induced drag): (wave drag) =93%:7% • SM=4%MAC • X almost not changed CG even though the center of pressure changed significantly at outboard.

• Nacelle and inboard area dominate the longitudinal stability.

Propulsion Airframe Integration Design

• Baseline (43cnts) : (Induced drag): (wave drag) =93%:7% Baseline Optimized • 19% ( - 7.5cnts) induced drag reduction • 75% ( - 2.1cnts) wave drag reduction C C C +C Di Dw Di Dw Baseline 93.47% 6.53% 100.00% Optimized 75.75% 1.64% 77.39% Delta - 17.72% - 4.89% - 22.61% - 9.59 counts

Clean - wing vs PAI

• Lift contribution of nacelle affects longitudinal stability at inboard area.

• PAI baseline - 12% more lift, 35~39% more drag (vs. Cleanwing baseline) • X is predicted further downstream around 43.7%c while clean wing has CG at 36.7%c.

CG • More induced drag dominant design.

Drag Comparison Cdi+Cdw 10 C l Cdi 5 0 Cdw Baseline Optimized Baseline Optimized Cleanwing PAI Cdw Cdi Cdi+Cdw

Viscous Effects on Aerodynamic Performance

• Inviscid analysis is used for fast design optimization.

• RANS analysis for optimized PAI configurations.

Optimized Baseline Optimized Baseline Euler Analysis – Mach Contour RANS analysis – Ps Contour Euler C C C C +C RANS C C C C C +C +C L Di Dw Di Dw L Di Dw Dv Di Dw Dv Baseline 0.1934 39.64 2.77 42.41 Baseline 0.1503 35.7 3.85 57.5 97.1 Optimized 0.1934 32.12 0.70 32.82 Optimized 0.1520 22.9 0.70 56.6 80.5 Delta 0.00 - 7.52 - 2.07 - 9.59 Delta +0.0017 - 12.8 - 2.89 - 0.92 - 16.6 Delta% 0% - 18.96% - 74.88% - 22.6% Delta% +1.3% - 35.86% - 74.96% - 1.59% - 17.10% Euler C - cowl Dw RANS C - cowl Dw Baseline 1.29 Baseline 1.96 Optimized 0.53 Optimized 0.78 Delta - 0.76 Delta - 1.19 Delta% - 58.72% Delta% - 60.49%

Viscous Effects on Aerodynamic Performance -

cont’d

• Span - wise Lift Distribution

RANS analysis Euler analysis 0.16 0.16 0.14 0.14 0.12 0.12 0.1 0.1 0.08 0.08 Baseline 0.06 Adjoint 0.06 Elliptic 0.04 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 2y/b 2y/b

Viscous Effects on Aerodynamic Performance -

cont’d

• Surface Pressure Distribution y=60%b/2

y=0%b/2

y=95.4%b/2

y=30%b/2

Conclusion

• A design analysis tool for efficient geometry generation and optimal shape

design of the hybrid wing body propulsion airframe integration (PAI) has

been developed

• Preliminary PAI configurations of HWB are designed with Euler analysis

for fast turn around and rigorously investigated with RANS analysis .

– The RANS analysis results carries the improvement of performance consistently as

Euler analysis predicted .

• Aerodynamic optimization with lift, pitching moment constraints was

conducted ; the first trim, longitudinal stability consideration for HWB

PAI configuration

– Almost 10 counts of drag reduction could be achieved .

– Design starting from PAI concept is required due to that nacelle installation has

significant impact on aerodynamics, trim and longitudinal stability .

Future Works

- 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 - * N3 - X conceptual design N3X - Dep300 clean PAI N3 - X with mailslot N3X - Dep300 with N3X - Dep300 with N+2B inlet shape wing, 300 passenger nacelle nacelle (PAI) nacelle and propulsor Configurations ** optimization cabin inlet A – BLI wall shaping mailslot n acelle cowl propulsion system Inlet mailslot mailslot wall shaping cross wind analysis surface design sizing with fan/nozzle GE R4 scaled single stage fan, sizing /conceptual electri c fan design BLI tolerant fan Propulsor conceptual study of counter rotating fan unstructured – unstructured iso – spring analogy unstructured aniso mesh airframe/inlet/nozzle Mesh crosschecked with overflow overset structured - propulsor fan blade Parameterization NURBS CST / planform/inlet/nacelle NURBS parameterization (CST ) through flow model – Roe/AUSM+UP N3X - Analysis with body - force drag decomposition axi - symmetric (CSTALL) SA/2 - eqs. turbulence models CFD Modeling model trim modeling multi - stage CFD LUSGS & GMRES (SWIFT) Optimization GBOM based on a djoint approach adjoint/NSGA - II adjoint/NSGA - II Method *Jim Felder et al. AIAA – 2011 – 0300 Completed On - going & future works Current **Craig L. Nickol AIAA - 2012 - 0337

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by NASA’s Advanced Air Transport

Technology (AATT) Project .

NSGA - II – 8 twist angles (PAI)

Sections for twist angle variables (we added 5 more sections for twist angle on red) 6.00E-03 5.50E-03 Design with semi - span # gen = 1 # gen = 2 # gen = 3 5.00E-03 # gen = 4 # gen = 5 # gen = 7 4.50E-03 # gen = 8 # gen = 11 # gen = 19 4.00E-03 # gen = 40 Baseline Optimized 3.50E-03 Induced Drag coeficient *Note: This optimized point is from adjoint with 124 parameters 3.00E-03 5.00E-05 1.00E-04 1.50E-04 2.00E-04 2.50E-04 3.00E-04 3.50E-04 4.00E-04 4.50E-04

Wave Drag Coefficient

NSGA - II – 8 twist angles

0.16 Baseline Adjoint 0.14 Elliptic Gen 40 Run 1 0.12 Manual Nose Down (Elliptic) 0.1 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00

Local Incidence Angle Comparison

Twist Angle] (Deg.)

- -2 -4 2y/b -6 Incidence[AOA 0% 95.4% -8 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2y/b

Baseline NSGA II - G40 R1 Elliptic-Manual Nose down

Scaled Sensitivity of Nacelle Parameters

ADJ dv = 141 6.00E-04 4.00E-04 2.00E-04 0.00E+00 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 -2.00E-04 -4.00E-04 -6.00E-04 twist angles Nacelle Parameters twist angles at additional sections • The sensitivities of nacelle parameters scaled by 5 times and twist angle by 1.25 for both optimized cases.

• The shock strength on the nacelle scaled sensitivity case got weaker than the prime optimized design but the geometry resulted marginally larger drag due to increase of induced drag.

C C C +C Di Dw Di Dw Baseline 93.47% 6.53% 100.00% Optimized - 17.72% - 4.89% - 22.61% Nacelle SCLD - 14.36% - 6.14% - 20.50% Prime Optimized Nacelle Scaled

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