Investigation on transonic flutter active auppression with CFD-Based ROMs

Abstract

The calculation of accurate unsteady aerodynamic forces is critical in the analysis of aeroelastic problems, however the efficiency is low because of high computational costs of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) portion. Additionally, direct integrated CFD and computational structural dynamics (CSD) technique is unsuitable for the analysis of ASE and the flutter active suppression in state-space form. A reduced-order model (ROM) based on Volterra series was developed using CFD calculation and used to predict the flutter coupled with the structure. The closed-loop control systems designed by the sliding mode control (SMC) and linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control were constructed with ROM/CSD to suppress the AGARD 445.6 wing flutter. The detailed implementation of the two control approaches is presented, and the flutter suppression effectiveness is discussed and compared. The results indicate that SMC method can make the controlled object response decay to the stable equilibrium more rapidly and has better control effects than the LQG control.