Recent advances in establishing a common language for aircraft design with CPACS

M Alder, E Moerland, J Jepsen, B Nagel - 2020 - elib.dlr.de
Today's aircraft design projects are characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration between
a large amount of heterogeneous disciplines. Each discipline contributes with specialized …

[HTML][HTML] AGILE Paradigm: The next generation collaborative MDO for the development of aeronautical systems

PD Ciampa, B Nagel - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The research and innovation EU funded AGILE project has developed the next generation of
aircraft Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization (MDO) processes, which target significant …

Collaborative aircraft engine preliminary design using a virtual engine platform, part a: Architecture and methodology

S Reitenbach, M Vieweg, R Becker… - AIAA Scitech 2020 …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
As in many other industries, the sector of aircraft engines and gas turbines is also
undergoing a change towards digitalization. The intention is to make digital technologies …

Sustainability assessment and engineering of emerging aircraft technologies—Challenges, methods and tools

S Pinheiro Melo, A Barke, F Cerdas, C Thies… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Driven by concerns regarding the sustainability of aviation and the continued growth of air
traffic, increasing interest is given to emerging aircraft technologies. Although new …

TiGL: an open source computational geometry library for parametric aircraft design

M Siggel, J Kleinert, T Stollenwerk, R Maierl - Mathematics in Computer …, 2019 - Springer
This paper introduces the software TiGL: TiGL is an open source geometry modeler that is
used in the conceptual and preliminary aircraft and helicopter design phase. It creates full …

The AGILE Paradigm: the next generation of collaborative MDO

PD Ciampa, B Nagel - 18th AIAA/ISSMO multidisciplinary analysis and …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
I. Introduction major challenge in the transport sector is making growth and sustainability
compatible by decoupling environmental impacts from economic growth. At the same time …

cpacs-MONA–An independent and in high fidelity based MDO tasks integrated process for the structural and aeroelastic design for aircraft configurations

T Klimmek, M Schulze, M Abu-Zurayk, C Ilic… - International Forum on …, 2019 - elib.dlr.de
The highly parameterized process cpacs-MONA for structural and aeroelastic design of
aircraft configurations is presented. The parameterized design process is based on the …

Global aerostructural design optimization of more flexible wings for commercial aircraft

TF Wunderlich, S Dähne, L Reimer, A Schuster - Journal of Aircraft, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
In the German Aerospace Center's Virtual Aircraft Technology Integration Platform project, a
process for aerostructural wing optimization based on high-fidelity simulation methods is …

[HTML][HTML] A collaborative approach for an integrated modeling of urban air transportation systems

M Niklaß, N Dzikus, M Swaid, J Berling, B Lührs, A Lau… - Aerospace, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current push in automation, communication, and electrical energy storage technologies
has the potential to lift urban mobility into the sky. As several urban air mobility (UAM) …

Automatic modeling of aircraft external geometries for preliminary design workflows

A De Marco, M Di Stasio, P Della Vecchia… - Aerospace Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article introduces a high-fidelity geometry definition methodology enabling
Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) of aircraft configurations. All …