Neural Network Approach for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis

A new approach is proposed, based on the use of artificial neural networks, for predicting nonlinear aeroelastic oscillations. Our objective is to reconstruct the asymptotic state of the nonlinear behavior of an aeroelastic model when only a limited segment of the transient data is known. An original neural network architecture is proposed and is used to predict the nonlinear motions of an aeroelastic system modeling a self-excited two-degree-of-freedom airfoil oscillating in pitch and plunge. When a segment of the transient state of the given signal is used for training, the neural network is capable of correctly predicting the corresponding limit-cycle oscillations, damped oscillations, or unstable divergent oscillations. The network training set consists of numerically generated data or data obtained from a wind-tunnel experiment. A neural network used in conjunction with a wavelet decomposition is presented, which proves to be capable of extracting the values of the damping coefficients and frequencies from the predicted signal. Neural networks, thus, prove to be useful tools in nonlinear aeroelastic analysis.

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