Multi-task diffusion graph model for aero-electromagnetic analysis of blended-wing-body configurations

Blended-wing-body configurations require coordinated assessment of aerodynamic loading and electromagnetic scattering characteristics; however, high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics and computational electromagnetics solvers remain too expensive for large-scale computations. We propose a multi-task diffusion graph neural network (GNN) defined on unstructured surface meshes that jointly predicts the surface pressure-coefficient field Cp, the global aerodynamic coefficients (CL,CD), and mean monostatic radar cross section (RCS) levels under horizontal and vertical polarizations (R¯H,R¯V). The node field and global scalars are concatenated into a joint diffusion state and denoised by a hierarchical, mesh-aware graph neural network; physical consistency between Cp and (CL,CD) is encouraged by a surface-integral regularizer, and task-appropriate conditioning is enforced through hard-gated masking for the mean-RCS branch. On a dataset of 3800 geometries evaluated at Mach numbers 0.60, 0.85, and 1.50 and angles of attack 2° and 6°, the model attains R2=0.969 for Cp, mean absolute errors (MAEs) of 0.0065/0.0013 for CL/CD, and MAEs of 0.381/0.358 dB for (R¯H,R¯V) on a geometry-disjoint test set. The reported errors should therefore be interpreted as solver-level surrogate fidelity with respect to the label-generation pipelines, rather than as independent experimental validation. In the long-step setting, inference provides an approximately 35× wall-clock speedup for the coupled aerodynamic–electromagnetic outputs relative to the solver pipelines used for label generation. In a short-step setting focused on Cp, the full pressure field is produced in 2.705 s per sample.

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Physics of Fluids
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2026-05-01
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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0326519
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Model Reduction and Neural Networks
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Multi-task diffusion graph model for aero-electromagnetic analysis of blended-wing-body configurations

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Physics of Fluids
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
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Multi-task diffusion graph model for aero-electromagnetic analysis of blended-wing-body configurations

Y Li, C G Li, Huan Zhao, Bowen Shu, Longzhou Yu, Ke Zhao
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Abstract

Blended-wing-body configurations require coordinated assessment of aerodynamic loading and electromagnetic scattering characteristics; however, high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics and computational electromagnetics solvers remain too expensive for large-scale computations. We propose a multi-task diffusion graph neural network (GNN) defined on unstructured surface meshes that jointly predicts the surface pressure-coefficient field Cp, the global aerodynamic coefficients (CL,CD), and mean monostatic radar cross section (RCS) levels under horizontal and vertical polarizations (R¯H,R¯V). The node field and global scalars are concatenated into a joint diffusion state and denoised by a hierarchical, mesh-aware graph neural network; physical consistency between Cp and (CL,CD) is encouraged by a surface-integral regularizer, and task-appropriate conditioning is enforced through hard-gated masking for the mean-RCS branch. On a dataset of 3800 geometries evaluated at Mach numbers 0.60, 0.85, and 1.50 and angles of attack 2° and 6°, the model attains R2=0.969 for Cp, mean absolute errors (MAEs) of 0.0065/0.0013 for CL/CD, and MAEs of 0.381/0.358 dB for (R¯H,R¯V) on a geometry-disjoint test set. The reported errors should therefore be interpreted as solver-level surrogate fidelity with respect to the label-generation pipelines, rather than as independent experimental validation. In the long-step setting, inference provides an approximately 35× wall-clock speedup for the coupled aerodynamic–electromagnetic outputs relative to the solver pipelines used for label generation. In a short-step setting focused on Cp, the full pressure field is produced in 2.705 s per sample.

Physics of FluidsVol. 38(5)
Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN), Mianyang Third People's Hospital (CN), Craft Group (China) (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Laboratory Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China
Openalex Percentile: Top 6%
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
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