用数据驱动方法提升扑翼飞行气动模型精度,更准更快。
Data-Driven Discovery and Formulation Refines the Quasi-Steady Model of Flapping-Wing Aerodynamics
- 从5000个运动函数中筛选出3个关键机制公式。
- 在高、低雷诺数下预测误差显著降低。
- 适合研究昆虫飞行演化与仿生飞行器设计。
昆虫通过控制扑翼的非定常气动力在复杂环境中导航。理解这些力对生物学、物理学和工程学都至关重要,但现有评估方法存在权衡:高保真模拟计算或实验成本高且解释性差,而基于准定常假设的理论模型虽具洞察力但精度不足。为克服此局限并提升准定常模型精度,我们采用数据驱动方法,发现并推导出此前被忽视的关键机制。通过从5000个候选运动函数中筛选,我们确立了三个关键机制的数学表达式——前进比效应、展向运动速度效应、旋转沃格纳效应——这些机制虽已定性认知但未被形式化。将这些机制融入模型后,以计算流体动力学结果为真实值,模型在鹰蛾前飞(高雷诺数)和果蝇机动(低雷诺数)中的预测误差显著降低。该数据驱动的准定常模型可实现快速气动分析,是理解昆虫飞行演化适应性的实用工具,也为开发仿生飞行机器人提供支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Insects control unsteady aerodynamic forces on flapping wings to navigate complex environments. While understanding these forces is vital for biology, physics, and engineering, existing evaluation methods face trade-offs: high-fidelity simulations are computationally or experimentally expensive and lack explanatory power, whereas theoretical models based on quasi-steady assumptions offer insights but exhibit low accuracy. To overcome these limitations and thus enhance the accuracy of quasi-steady aerodynamic models, we applied a data-driven approach involving discovery and formulation of previously overlooked critical mechanisms. Through selection from 5,000 candidate kinematic functions, we identified mathematical expressions for three key additional mechanisms -- the effect of advance ratio, effect of spanwise kinematic velocity, and rotational Wagner effect -- which had been qualitatively recognized but were not formulated. Incorporating these mechanisms considerably reduced the prediction errors of the quasi-steady model using the computational fluid dynamics results as the ground truth, both in hawkmoth forward flight (at high Reynolds numbers) and fruit fly maneuvers (at low Reynolds numbers). The data-driven quasi-steady model enables rapid aerodynamic analysis, serving as a practical tool for understanding evolutionary adaptations in insect flight and developing bio-inspired flying robots.
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