Formalizing Technology Descriptions for Selection During Conceptual Design

Conference paper (2019)

Authors

M.N. Roelofs Flight Performance and Propulsion - Aerospace Engineering
Roelof Vos Flight Performance and Propulsion - Aerospace Engineering
Research Group
Flight Performance and Propulsion (Aerospace Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2019 M.N. Roelofs, Roelof Vos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0816
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Aerospace Engineering

Department

Flow Physics and Technology

Research Group

Flight Performance and Propulsion

Abstract

Evaluation and assessment of novel technologies for aerospace applications is essential for business strategy and decision making regarding development efforts. However, technology evaluation and assessment are challenging to perform objectively using a structured approach. As a first step towards a more objective and structured approach a graph-based description of engineering systems is described herein. Analyses can be applied to such a description through pattern matching, after which the quantities of interest can be computed by an automated algorithm using a dependency graph. The approach is applied to a simplified aircraft model, to perform a mission analysis and compute fuel burn. It is shown the method successfully computes the required parameter and is easily adapted to analyze an electric aircraft as well.

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