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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (3): 130808.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.30808

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Design method of hypersonic inward turning inlet based on genetic and gradient hybrid optimization strategy

Jun CHEN1,2, Feng QU1,2(), Junjie FU1,2   

  1. 1.School of Aeronautics,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China
    2.National Key Laboratory of Aircraft Configuration Design,Xi’an 710072,China
  • Received:2024-06-07 Revised:2024-07-01 Accepted:2024-07-31 Online:2024-08-06 Published:2024-08-05
  • Contact: Feng QU E-mail:qufeng@nwpu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(11972308)

Abstract:

The hypersonic inward-turning inlet has attracted wide attention because of its higher compression efficiency and larger flow coefficient. Nowadays, traditional design methods cannot achieve the optimal performance of the inlet. Therefore, coupling the genetic algorithm and the gradient algorithm, this paper proposes a new design method for the hypersonic inward-turning inlet based on the hybrid optimization strategy, and completes the design of the inlet at Mach number 6. Firstly, the global configuration design of the basic flowfield is conducted using genetic optimization, resulting in a Pareto front of basic flowfields with good performance. Among them, a typical dual-shock wave basic flowfield is selected to design the dual-shock wave inward-turning inlet. Secondly, the refined shape design of the above inlet is carried out based on adjoint gradient optimization, which further improves the performance of the inlet. Consequently, compared to inward-turning inlets designed using the traditional forward design methods, the performance of the inlet constructed by the design method is significantly improved. The flow coefficient, total pressure recovery coefficient and pressure rising ratio are increased by 2.33%, 13.15% and 7.90%, respectively, and the distortion coefficient (DC60) is reduced by 3.70%. During the global configuration design, the overall parameters of the basic flowfield, such as the radius of the center body and outlet, are designed to obtain the optimal-performing global configuration of basic flowfield. During the refined shape design, the fluctuations of the inlet surface improve the mass capture performance and compression capability of the shock wave in the isolation section. In addition, the surface deformation also weakens the total pressure loss caused by the second incident shock wave, the development of streamwise vortexes and the flow separation induced by shock-wave/turbulent-layer interaction in the isolation section. Furthermore, the weakening of streamwise vortexes and flow separation results in the reduction of total pressure loss in the isolation section and the improvement of flow uniformity on the outflow boundary.

Key words: hypersonic, inward-turning inlet, genetic algorithm, gradient-based optimization, basic flowfield

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