01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems (Theory, Methods and Tools)
INVERSE AIRFOIL DESIGN USING AERODYNAMICALLY CONDITIONED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODERS
K. Swannet¹, N.A.K. Doan, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; C. Varriale¹; ¹Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Introduces a CVAE for airfoil inverse design conditioned on aerodynamic metrics and trained on the UIUC database. It directly generates geometries meeting target performance, avoiding iterative optimization. Conditioning improves latent interpretability and reduces dimensionality, linking features to aero-geometric properties and enabling efficient, intuitive design exploration.
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0894