用AI直接从性能目标生成船用螺旋桨设计,大幅缩短迭代时间。
AI-Driven Performance-to-Design Generation and Optimization of Marine Propellers

- 基于物理模拟生成2万+桨叶数据,构建端到端设计框架
- 毫秒级性能预测与进化优化,实现精准达标设计
- 扩散模型比变分自编码器生成更多样方案,适合创新设计
人工智能正被用于加速工程设计,提升决策效率并缩短迭代周期。然而,船用螺旋桨设计因训练数据稀缺且缺乏通用预训练模型而面临挑战。本文提出一种基于物理的数据生成流程与面向螺旋桨的生成式AI框架,实现从性能指标直接生成设计。首先构建包含超过20,000个四叶与五叶螺旋桨几何体及其模拟开敞水性能曲线的数据库。在此基础上开发三模块设计框架:(1) 条件生成模型,根据目标推力、功率和直径等规格生成候选几何;(2) 性能预测模型,采用神经网络代理模型,可在毫秒级内预测推力、扭矩与效率,支持快速评估;(3) 设计优化阶段,通过进化算法满足实际约束,如功率限制下的最低推力、桨叶面积比与厚度范围。实验结果表明,该框架可生成符合性能目标的流体动力学合理设计,显著减少传统人工调优所需时间。基于潜变量扩散的生成器在相同条件下产生的设计多样性优于条件变分自编码器,表明扩散模型在设计空间探索中具备更强能力。通过融合物理驱动数据合成与模块化AI模型,该方法简化了螺旋桨设计流程,减少了对高保真仿真的依赖直至最终验证阶段。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarce training data and the lack of widely available pretrained models. We address this gap with a physics-based data generation pipeline and a generative-AI framework for direct performance-to-design generation tailored to marine propellers. First, we build a database of over 20,000 four- and five-bladed propeller geometries, each accompanied by simulated open-water performance curves. On top of this dataset, we develop a three-module design framework: (1) A Conditional Generation Model that proposes candidate geometries conditioned on design specifications such as target thrust, power, and diameter. (2) A Performance Prediction Model, implemented as a neural-network surrogate, that predicts thrust, torque, and efficiency in milliseconds, enabling rapid evaluation of generated designs. (3) A design refinement stage that applies evolutionary optimization to enforce practical constraints such as required thrust under power limits and bounds on blade-area ratio and thickness. Experimental results over a range of operating conditions show that the framework can generate hydrodynamically plausible propeller designs that match prescribed performance targets while substantially reducing design-iteration time relative to the traditional expert-guided refinement. Latent diffusion-based generator produces more diverse designs under the same conditions than the conditional variational autoencoder, suggesting a stronger capacity for design-space exploration with diffusion models. By coupling physics-based data synthesis with modular AI models, the proposed approach streamlines the propeller design cycle and reduces reliance on expensive high-fidelity simulations to final validation stages.
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