Fig. 1 Example of MF surrogate model with N = 2 (without noise) Fig. 2. Example of the active learning method using one fidelity with- out noise: (left) shows the initial surrogate model with the associated prediction uncertainty and training set; (right) shows the position of the new training point and the new surrogate model prediction and its uncertainty The identification of the new training points is based on the LCB sampling method [7] with equal weight for the function value and the prediction uncertainty (see Fig. 2). It aims to find points with large prediction uncertainty and small objective function value. Accordingly, LCB iden- tifies new training points by minimizing the acquisition function y(x) basis function (RBF) surrogate models, defined by a sto- chastic tuning parameter, z ~ unif[1, 3]: Table 1 Analytical benchmark problems by several local minima and adjacent regions of strong gradients and flatness, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Further- more, the different fidelity levels are modeled to never have a coincident global minimum among them. Finally, P,and P, are arbitrarily scalable in the number of dimen- sions, and P, also in the number of fidelities. Fig.5 Analytical test problems: from top to bottom P, P3, and Py with D = 2 (without noise); from left to right f;, f5, and f; (high-, medium-, and low-fidelity) Fig.6 NACA 4-digit hydrofoil Fig. 7, NACA hydrofoil computational grids (G) for ISIS-CFD; from left to right G1 (12.8 k cells), G2 (5.7 k cells), and G3 (3.6 k cells) Fig.8 The different steps of the ISIS-CFD grid creation for the DTMB 5415 optimization Fig.9 RoPax ferry grids (bow detail): from left to right G1, G2, G3, and G4 Fig. 10 Analytical test problem P,: from left to right E,, E,, and E, Fig.11 Analytical test problem P,, from left to right E,, Ep, and E, 6.1 Analytical test problems Fig. 12 Analytical test problem P;, from left to right E,, Ey, and E,, from top to bottom D = 2,5, 10 Fig. 13 Analytical test problem P,, from left to right E,, E,, and E,, from top to bottom D = 2,5, 10 Test D N CC Median[E,]% Median [E; 1% Median [E,]% Median[7,] Median[7] Median [73] Fig. 14 NACA hydrofoil, surrogate models and associated prediction uncertainty for D = 1; from left to right N = 1, 2,° Finally, even in the Hexpress-only grids, jumps in the drag can be observed when the topology of the grids changes. However, these jumps are less frequent than for the on the history of the forces. Thus, if the history of the grid Fig. 15 NACA hydrofoil, surrogate models (top) and associated prediction uncertainty (bottom) for D = 2: from left to right N = 1, 2, 3 vary, even if the final grid topology is the same. This makes it difficult to identify a single cause for the noise. An analysis of the noise behavior in the simulations is given in Fig. 16, which shows the evolution of the drag for a systematic variation of the foil thickness over a small range. The drag on adaptively refined grids is compared with a sys- tematic series of grids created directly by the Hexpress grid generator. These results confirm that for this case, the noise is mostly due to the adaptive refinement procedure, since the grids without adaptation produce a much smoother behavior. These oscillations in the forces are related to small changes in the topology of the adapted grids (i.e. cells, especially in the boundary layers and at the leading edge, which are either refined or not depending on small changes in the hydrofoil geometry). Also, the dynamic adjustment of the foil angle of attack depends, within the tolerances of the algorithm, on the history of the forces. Thus, if the history of the grid refinement is different, the converged angle of attack may However, the noise is proportional to the numerical errors of the simulations: it is most pronounced on the coarsest grid and disappears rapidly as the adapted addition, based on a rough estimati grids become finer. In on of the grid conver- gence for the two series, the adapted grids produce similar accuracy as non-adapted grids with four to five times more cells, thanks to the excellent capturing of the flow around the leading edge on the adapted gri essential to obtain the right forces ds (see Fig. 8), that is for a lifting hydrofoil. Thus, the main benefit of the adaptive refinement here is a gain in efficiency for the CFD simulation. However, the noise is proportional to the numerical errors Fig. 16 NACA hydrofoil, drag coefficient as a function of ¢ for c =0.0475 and p=0.475. The drawn lines are adapted grids (ADR, G3=3.6 k, G2=5.4 k, G1=11.8 k, and GO=36.3 k cells), the dashed lines are Hexpress-only grids (HEX, G3=14.4 k, G2=24.5 k, G1=37.4 k, and GO=52.8 k cells) Fig. 17 DTMB 5415, surrogate models prediction (top) and associated uncertainty (bottom); from left to right VN = 1, 2,3 Figure 17 shows the surrogate models with N = 1, 2,3 and the associated prediction uncertainty for the DTMB 5415 optimization problem. The MF method with N = 3 identifies two minimum regions in the neighborhood of (0.15, 0.75) and (0.65, 0.2). However, an inspection of the actual highest-fidelity data reveals that the first optimum may be a numerical artifact of the surrogate model. Nev- ertheless, the active learning procedure correctly ignores the upper-right and lower-left corners, where the predic- tion uncertainty is high, but the objective function value Fig. 19 DTMB 5415, mass-fraction on the hull-surface; original (top) and optimized (bottom), along with a stern detail (right Figure 20 (left) compares the pressure distribution along the optimal and the original hull surfaces. The optimized hull has a stronger pressure gradient along the hull, but the low pressure zone is mostly perpendicular to the flow direc- tion, so it has little influence on the drag. Figure 20 (right) shows the wave elevation of the original and optimized hull, Moreover, for this more complex case, while the noise is still related to topology changes in the adapted grids, it is possible to identify distinct sources for the noise. For the lowest-fidelity data, the noise is mostly associated with mod- ifications in the position and the smearing of the wave sys- tem. For example, Fig. 22 (left) shows random fluctuations Fig. 18 DTMB 5415, comparison of hull shapes Fig. 20 DTMB 5415, comparison of the original (top) and optimized (bottom) hull shapes; hull-surface pressure (left) and wave elevation pat- tern (right) Fig.23 DTMB 5145, stern wave pattern: from top to bottom X, = —0.85, —0.825, —0.8, —0.8, from left to right G3, G2, G1 The transom is oriented normal to the flow, so even a small change in wetted surface here has a large influence on Fig.22 DTMB 5415, bow wave: from top to bottom x, = —0.85, —0.825, —0.8, from left to right G3, G2, G1 in the thickness and the position of the volume fraction dis- continuity in the first trough and the shoulder wave. Since the amount of wetted surface has a large influence on the drag, these changes in the waves explain the oscillations in the forces. Figure 22 (center and right) shows that this perturbation behaves like the noise for the hydrofoil: the finer the grid, the smaller the oscillations. The stern wave crest in Fig. 23 shows similar oscillations. The gradient change in the fine grid solutions is explained by the stern wave too (see Fig. 23, right): a topology change occurs at Xz = —0.825 close to the stern, where a double wave ridge with a small wetted patch on the transom is replaced by a Fig. 24 RoPax ferry, MF surrogate prediction (top) and associated uncertainty (bottom) Fig.25 RoPax ferry, original (black lines) and optimized (blue- dashed lines) shapes with the free-surface line (FS) Fig. 26 RoPax ferry, non-dimensional hull-surface pressure and wave patterns. Colors represent non-dimensional pressure level: Fig. 27 RoPax ferry, non-dimensional wave patterns. Colors repre- sent non-dimensional wave elevation
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