Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimisation of Inflatable Stacked Toroid Decelerators: A Novel Framework Advancing Mars Exploration

Future Mars exploration missions require safe and controlled landing on the planet’s surface. Conventional entry, descent and landing (EDL) technologies, such as parachutes and rigid aeroshells, face limitations in meeting increasing demands for heavier payloads, harsher entry conditions, and desired landing locations due to their limited...

Similitude augmentation in sub-scale flight test model design: An MDAO based similarity maximization approach

By 2050, the aviation industry is expected to grow by 250-300% of its current air traffic. If left unchecked, the corresponding increase in atmospheric and noise pollution will have a catastrophic impact on the environment. Thus, improvements in aircraft design are urgently needed for a sustainable growth of the aviation industry. The...

SAS: an advisory framework to support surrogate model based MDAO

This work introduces the Surrogate Advisory System (SAS), a Python package that aims to reduce the existing complexity when working with surrogate-based MDAO systems. SAS automates most of the steps for a CPACS-based MDAO workflow and drastically reduces required efforts to integrate surrogate models within MDAO systems. Key developments...

Development and Implementation of an MBSE Requirement Verification Framework in the System Design Process

Requirement management is an important part of the design process. A perfectly feasible design can be useless if it does not meet the requirements imposed on the design. With the upcoming automation in the design process, requirement management can become even more complicated. How are requirements driving the design and how are these...

Parametrisation Scheme for Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimisation of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Substructure - OC3 5MW Case Study

The development of novel energy technologies is considered imperative in the provision of solutions to meet an increasing global demand for clean energy. Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) is one of the emerging technologies to exploit the vast wind resources available in deeper waters. To lower the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) or...

Multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization of floating offshore wind turbine substructures: A review

The development of novel energy technologies to meet net zero carbon emission is essential in the provision of solutions to realize an increasing worldwide demand for renewable energy. Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) is one of the emerging technologies to exploit the vast wind resources available in deep waters within the offshore wind...

Weight & Balance Estimation with Automated Structural Analysis for Subscale Flight Models: A Knowledge Based Engineering Approach

Unconventional aircraft designs have the potential to lower the impact of aviation on emissions and climate as compared to conventional aircraft designs. However, the flight dynamics behaviour of such unconventional configurations must be carefully evaluated by studying Stability and Control (S&C) characteristics to design safe aircraft and...

Agile MDAO Systems: A Graph-based Methodology to Enhance Collaborative Multidisciplinary Design

The need to continuously design better aircraft is challenging on multiple fronts: the existing tube-and-wing aircraft are difficult to improve further, while more creative configurations prove more cumbersome to design due to the lack of empirical knowledge and the (usually) more highly integrated components. Multidisciplinary Design Analysis...

A guideline for selecting MDAO workflows with an application in offshore wind energy

A system is a set of interconnected components whose individual behaviour and interactions determine the overall performance of the set. Wind farms are amongst the most complex systems deployed worldwide, based on their uncertainty, heterogeneity and complexity. Moreover, many technical and social disciplines may simultaneously describe the...

Formulation and integration of MDAO systems for collaborative design: A graph-based methodological approach

This paper proposes a novel methodology and its software implementation, called KADMOS (Knowledge- and graph-based Agile Design for Multidisciplinary Optimization System), to increase the agility of design teams in collaborative Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO). Agility here refers to the ease and flexibility to...

Towards the Industrialization of MDAO: Evolving 1st Generation MDAO to an Industry Ready Level of Maturity

Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) promises major advances in aircraft design. However, judging from todays aircraft, MDAO is clearly not fully embraced by the industry yet. This is due to technical difficulties (coupling incompatible tools) and non-technical barriers (intellectual property).<br/><br/>Recent research, such...

A Fully Automated Chain from MDAO Problem Formulation to Workflow Execution

In this paper, a methodology to connect the multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO) problem formulation tool KADMOS and the commercial Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) platform Optimus is presented. This capability has been developed in the context of the EU project AGILE. The aim of this development is to...