Concurrent Blade Aerodynamic-Aero-elastic Design Optimization Using Adjoint Method

Increasing aerothermal and aero-elastic performance requirements and constraints are closely linked in modern blading designs. There is thus a need for more concurrent interaction between the disciplines at earlier stages of a design process. Presented in this paper are the development, validation, and demonstration of the adjoint approach to concurrent blading aerodynamic and aero-elastic design optimizations. A nonlinear harmonic phase solution method is adopted to solve the unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier―Stokes equations. The flow field response in terms of both the mean aerothermal performance and aero-elastic stability to a geometrical perturbation can be obtained by three "steadylike" flow solutions at three distinctive temporal phases. This unsteady flow solution method is computationally very efficient and provides a convenient and consistent base for formulating the corresponding adjoint equations. The adjoint system for the unsteady flow solver is solved effectively by a relatively simple extension of the method and techniques previously developed for a steady flow adjoint solver. As a result, the sensitivities of both the steady (time-mean) flow loss and the aerodynamic damping/ forcing to detailed blade geometry changes can be very efficiently obtained by solving equivalently three steadylike adjoint equations. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the validity and effectiveness of this new concurrent approach.

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