JAXA Supercomputer System Annual Report April 2017-March 2018

Report Number: R17ECMP11

Subject Category: Competitive Funding

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• Responsible Representative: Yasutada Tanabe, Aeronautical Technology Directorate, Next Generation Aeronautical Innovation Hub Center
• Contact Information: Masahiko Sugiura sugiura.masahiko@jaxa.jp
• Members: Yasutada Tanabe, Masahiko Sugiura, Hideaki Sugawara

Abstract

Research on advanced technologies of aircraft (helicopter) is conducted to construct and validate an optimization design tool.

Reference URL

Please refer to 'Future type rotary-airfoil airplane system technology | Sky Frontier – Sky Frontier Program | Aeronautical Technology Directorate'.

Reasons for using JSS2

It is absolutely necessary to utilize a super computer, regarding understanding aerodynamic performances which require large scale computations.

Achievements of the Year

Aerodynamically optimal design of helicopter rotor blade.

Fig.1: Computational grids of a hovering helicopter rotor

Publications

■ Peer-reviewed papers

Atthaphon Ariyarit, Masahiko Sugiura, Yasutada Tanabe, and Masahiro Kanazaki, "Hybrid surrogate-model-based multi-fidelity efficient global optimization applied to helicopter blade design", Engineering Optimization, September, 2017.

Usage of JSS2

Computational Information

• Process Parallelization Methods: N/A
• Thread Parallelization Methods: OpenMP
• Number of Processes: 1
• Elapsed Time per Case: 12.00 hours

Resources Used

Fraction of Usage in Total Resources*1(%): 0.06

Details

Please refer to System Configuration of JSS2 for the system configuration and major specifications of JSS2.

*1: Fraction of Usage in Total Resources: Weighted average of three resource types (Computing, File System, and Archiver).

*2: Fraction of Usage：Percentage of usage relative to each resource used in one year.

JAXA Supercomputer System Annual Report April 2017-March 2018