Abstract
The aerodynamic database construction for conventional aircraft configurations typically employs full sampling across inflow dimensions. Given the substantial distance and weak interference between control surfaces, the strategy of superimposing control effectiveness increments is widely used, which avoids the need for a full combinatorial sampling of all control surface deflections. However, for flying-wing aircraft, the presence of strong aerodynamic interference among multiple closely-spaced control surfaces makes full combinatorial sampling that accounts for these interactions prohibitively expensive. This paper focuses on the critical challenge of constructing an aerodynamic model capable of capturing nonlinear interference between control surfaces under limited combinatorial sample. Firstly, an intelligent aerodynamic modeling method is proposed that integrates a convolutional neural network (CNN) with an engineering model, specifically for scenarios with dense angle-ofattack sampling such as wind tunnel tests. Secondly, to characterize the aerodynamic forces generated by 3 trailingedge control surface combinations on a low-speed flying-wing configuration, high-fidelity CFD simulations are used to obtain aerodynamic data for single and dual control surface deflections. Finally, a low-fidelity engineering model is constructed using a method that linearly superimposes individual control effectiveness and interference increments between adjacent control surfaces. Then, by introducing an angle-of-attack sequence modeling mechanism, a CNN is applied to further characterize nonlinear interference effects both among the control surfaces and across the angleof-attack dimension. Results indicate that the proposed method not only improves accuracy by approximately 40% compared to the engineering model, but also reduces the standard deviation of prediction error by over 50% relative to a direct deep neural network model without embedded engineering knowledge. This research significantly enhances both accuracy and robustness of strongly nonlinear aerodynamic modeling for flying-wing aircraft under high-angle-of-attack and large-control-surface-deflection conditions.
| Translated title of the contribution | An intelligent fusion modeling method for aerodynamic forces of multi-control-surface aircraft |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 191-199 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Harbin Gongye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2025 |
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