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.
Authors
- Y Li
- C G Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0007-4088)
- Huan Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-7793)
- Bowen Shu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3108-4601)
- Longzhou Yu
- Ke Zhao
Institutions
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
- Mianyang Third People's Hospital (CN)
- Craft Group (China) (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics of Fluids
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0326519
- Primary Topic
- Model Reduction and Neural Networks
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Key Laboratory Foundation of China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China