Air Vehicle Technology Modeling and Simulation
Abstract
The aircraft design process is a complex, highly iterative, time consuming process that contributes significantly to the overall engineering cost. The multidisciplinary nature of the engineering process, which includes design, analysis, and manufacturing, follows a regimented path initiated by a conceptual design, evolving into a preliminary design, leading to a detailed design for production. Many critical design decisions are made at the conceptual level where the least amount of information is available to assist in the design evaluation and tradeoffs. The objective of this effort is the development of an engineering framework to provide a natural environment for modeling and simulating the aircraft design process through its various states from the conceptual to preliminary phase. The framework will provide a modeling paradigm with an underlying object-oriented architecture enabling the seamless integration and automation of the various engineering processes. The framework supports a collaborative, highly interactive and creative design environment that enables disparate disciplinary efforts to concurrently share high fidelity object-oriented models. The system is implemented using Adoptive Modeling Language (AML) employing an advanced paradigm with dependency tracking and demand-driven computation, facilitating the feed forward and backward of information among the various engineering processes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA404020
Entities
People
- John Marino