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Multi-Fidelity Modeling for Efficient Aerothermal Prediction of Deployable Re-Entry Vehicles
Proceedings of the 22nd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonics Systems and Technologies Conference (2018, Orlando, FL)
  • Mario Santos
  • Andrew Hinkle
  • Serhat Hosder, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Thomas West
Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate a multi-fidelity modeling approach to accurately and efficiently predict the aerothermal response of a large diameter deployable hypersonic re-entry vehicle in Mars entry. A co-Kriging based multi-fidelity modeling approach was developed that utilized several refinements including LU-decomposition for parallelization, distance weighted root mean square error adaptive sampling, and surface distribution parameterization using Hicks-Henne bump functions. Several computational tools of varying fidelity were investigated to model the surface heat flux, shear stress, and pressure in the multi-fidelity modeling process. The LAURA CFD software with thermochemical nonequilibrium and with calorically perfect gas models were used as high and low-fidelity tools, respectively, to model laminar convective heat flux, surface pressure, and shear stress. A second low-fidelity tool investigated utilized the Sutton-Graves equation with surface correlations by Krasnov for the convective heat flux, and the modified Newtonian method for surface pressure. The multi-fidelity model was found to have a mean convective heat rate error of 4.6%, a mean pressure force error of 0.81%, and a mean shear force error of 2.86% when compared to high-fidelity CFD simulations. Compared to a Kriging model of the high-fidelity data only, the multi-fidelity model required approximately one-half the number of high-fidelity model evaluations to obtain the same accuracy level. The computational cost of constructing and evaluating the multi-fidelity model were approximately one and five orders of magnitude less, respectively, than one high-fidelity model simulation.

Meeting Name
22nd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonics Systems and Technologies Conference (2018: Sep. 17-19, Orlando, FL)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Comments

This work was supported by a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) under grant no. 80NSSC17K0170 (Mario Santos, NSTRF student, Serhat Hosder, principal investigator and Thomas K. West, research collaborator).

Keywords and Phrases
  • Computational fluid dynamics,
  • Errors,
  • Heat convection,
  • Hypersonic aerodynamics,
  • Hypersonic vehicles,
  • Interpolation,
  • Mean square error,
  • Reentry,
  • Shear stress, Computational tools,
  • High fidelity models,
  • Hypersonic re-entry,
  • Multi-fidelity modeling,
  • Orders of magnitude,
  • Root mean square errors,
  • Surface distributions,
  • Surface heat fluxes, Heat flux
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-162410577-7
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2018 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Publication Date
01 Sep 2018
Disciplines
Citation Information
Mario Santos, Andrew Hinkle, Serhat Hosder and Thomas West. "Multi-Fidelity Modeling for Efficient Aerothermal Prediction of Deployable Re-Entry Vehicles" Proceedings of the 22nd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonics Systems and Technologies Conference (2018, Orlando, FL) (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/serhat-hosder/90/