Installation Penalty of Aero-Engines on Narrow Body Aircraft

Decades of improvements of engine efficiency on internal engine components through better materials, design methods and novel fabrication techniques have resulted in fuel consumption reductions. Another major factor for improving engine fuel consumption has been the increase of bypass ratio. However, this has a significant impact on engine...

An Application of the IPROD Software Framework to Support the Product Development Process in the Automotive and Aerospace Domain

The Product Development Process (PDP) of manufacturing companies requires the efficient management of huge amounts of data from different sources and their integration in the sub-processes that compose the product development chain. This is a very challenging endeavor for which an integrated approach does not yet exist. The EC FP7 Project iProd...