About the lab

AEROLab
Devoted to CFD, Aircraft design and Turbomachinery

Featured research (1)

Machine learning has been widely utilized in flow field modeling and aerodynamic optimization. However, most applications are limited to two-dimensional problems. The dimensionality and the cost per simulation of three-dimensional problems are so high that it is often too expensive to prepare sufficient samples. Therefore, transfer learning has become a promising approach to reuse well-trained two-dimensional models and greatly reduce the need for samples for three-dimensional problems. This paper proposes to reuse the baseline models trained on supercritical airfoils to predict finite-span swept supercritical wings, where the simple swept theory is embedded to improve the prediction accuracy. Two baseline models are investigated: one is commonly referred to as the forward problem of predicting the pressure coefficient distribution based on the geometry, and the other is the inverse problem that predicts the geometry based on the pressure coefficient distribution. Two transfer learning strategies are compared for both baseline models. The transferred models are then tested on complete wings. The results show that transfer learning requires only approximately 500 wing samples to achieve good prediction accuracy on different wing planforms and different free stream conditions. Compared to the two baseline models, the transferred models reduce the prediction error by 60% and 80%, respectively.

Lab head

Haixin Chen
Department
  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering
About Haixin Chen
  • CFD, Optimization Design

Members (21)

Yufei Zhang
  • Tsinghua University
Runze Li
  • Imperial College London
Maochao Xiao
  • Tsinghua University
Haoran Li
  • Tsinghua University
Chenyu Wu
  • Tsinghua University
Yuhui Yin
  • Tsinghua University
Zhao Li
  • Tsinghua University
Jinwen Yang
  • Tsinghua University
Yunjia Yang
Yunjia Yang
  • Not confirmed yet
Scott McNulty
Scott McNulty
  • Not confirmed yet
Meihong Zhang
Meihong Zhang
  • Not confirmed yet
Zhang Meihong
Zhang Meihong
  • Not confirmed yet
YingChun CHEN
YingChun CHEN
  • Not confirmed yet
Chongyang Yan
Chongyang Yan
  • Not confirmed yet
Pu Yang
Pu Yang
  • Not confirmed yet
Wensheng Zhang
Wensheng Zhang
  • Not confirmed yet