Thermal System Analysis Tools (TSAT)
Abstract
Design of military aircraft, or other complex engineering systems, involves designing the individual components and subsystems, and subsequently integrating all of those parts to yield the desired final product. Since the design of a new product (e.g., aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) usually begins with a definition of what the role or mission of the new product will be, the design process can focus on satisfying that mission. This design process, to be efficient, optimizes the total integrated design to best attain its product goal. This process has historically been a lengthy iterative procedure, often not arriving at an optimized, or even a satisfactory design. A new design approach is introduced and developed in this program for design of highly integrated systems. Focusing on one aspect of the total (aircraft) system, namely the thermal management systems, a new method for design, integration, and analytical evaluation is developed and demonstrated. This process allows modeling and simulation of highly integrated complex systems, and top level evaluation of such systems, thereby identifying the effects of subsystem design on the performance of the whole. The new methods are based on the use of object oriented programming methods, with open architect programming methods consistent with the Microsoft COM protocols. The resulting analysis methods are compatible with planned computer industry initiatives for distributed computing, using desktop computing platforms, and offer very powerful new methods for integrated design processes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA404721
Entities
People
- Ernest S. Hodge
- Marvin R. Glickstein