Towards Adjoint-Based Methods for Aeroacoustic Control

S. Scott Collis
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Kaveh Ghayour
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics and
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Matthias Heinkenschloss
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University

Michael Ulbrich
Stefan Ulbrich
Zentrum Mathematik
Technische Universität München, Germany

AIAA Paper 2001-0821
39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit
January 8-11, 2001, Reno, Nevada.


Abstract

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of optimal boundary control problems governed by the unsteady two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Specifically, we will present results for a model problem consisting of two counter-rotating viscous vortices above an infinite wall which, due to the self-induced velocity field, propagate downward and strike the wall. The control is the temporal and spatial distribution of wall-normal velocity which is used to minimize a cost functional of interest. The motivation for this work is on-blade control of aeroacoustic noise generated by blade-vortex interaction. We discuss some problem formulation issues, especially the choice of regularization terms, we outline our adjoint computations, and we present results from two optimal control calculations using different objectives and different control regularizations.

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This paper is largely superseded by S. S. Collis, K. Ghayour, M. Heinkenschloss, M. Ulbrich, and S. Ulbrich, Optimal Control of Unsteady Compressible Viscous Flows.