Optimal Control of the Unsteady Euler Equations in 1D with Application to Ignition Overpressure Attenuation in Launch Vehicles

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Moshman, Nathan D.
Hobson, Garth V.
Sritharan, Sivaguru S.
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2011-06Metadata
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This paper presents a new formulation and computational solution of an optimal control
problem concerning unsteady shock wave attenuation. The adjoint system of equations
for the unsteady Euler system in 1D is derived and utilized in an adjoint-based solution
procedure for the optimal control. A novel algorithm is used to solve for the optimal
control solution that satis es all necessary rst order optimality conditions while locally
minimizing an appropriate cost functional. The solution procedure is sufficiently
exible
such that it can be used to solve other distributed optimal control problems where the state
dynamics are in the form of non-linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations
and where the initial data is given and the nal data is free at a free nal time. Distributed
control solutions with certain physical constraints are calculated for attenuating blast waves
similar to to those generated by Ignition Over Pressure (IOP) from the Shuttle's Solid
Rocket Booster during launch. The control solutions give insight to the magnitude and
location of energy dissipation necessary to decrease a given blast wave's overpressure to a
set target level over a given spatial domain while using only as much control as needed.
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20th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, 27 - 30 June 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii
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