Use Case – MALE UAV

Top Level Aircraft Requirements
Cruise above civil transport [m]	>15000
Payload [kg]	800
Range @max Payload [km]	>12000
Cruise speed [m/s]	150
Dive speed [m/s]	180
Landing speed [m/s]	55
Take-off field length [m]	2500

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@conference{	Daoud2017_77	,

title = {High-Performance Aircraft Through Innovative Development Process and Methods.},

author = {F. Daoud and J. Dornwald and P. Ernstberger and H.P. Frantzen and R. Maierl and S. Deinert and O. Petersen},

url = {https://www.agile4.eu/cloud/index.php/s/EaW7WEwzWTKSXo9},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

address = {Grapevine, USA},

organization = {AIAA SciTech 2017	,},

abstract = {Aircraft, generally, and military aircraft in particular are complex systems and the demand for high-performance flying platforms is constantly growing regardless whether for civil or military purposes. The development of aircraft is inherently multidisciplinary and the exploitation of the interaction of the design-driving disciplines opens the door for new designs, and consequently, for new high-performance aircraft [1]. An important feature of modern aircraft development processes and procedures is to enable the engineers accessing these design spaces in the concept phase, where the key configuration decisions are made and frozen for later development phases. Furthermore, pushing more MDO and numerical analysis capabilities into the early design phase will support the decision-making process through reliable physical information. It is worth mentioning that these design spaces are very large and can hardly be grasped and explored by humans without a structured approach and massive support of numerical analysis methods. To this end, Airbus Defence and Space - Military Aircraft - established - in collaboration with universities and research institutes [2] [3] - an integrated multidisciplinary aircraft development process, based on flexible parametric geometry models connected to an innovative decentralized MDO platform. This radically different aircraft development process links the conceptual design phase to the preliminary and definition phase fulfilling following requirements addressed by repeatedly conducted technical gap analysis (see Figure 1): 1) Enable intermediate level analysis (fast and accurate methods), 2) Ensure model continuity through flexible parametric geometry models growing in fidelity over the development phases, 3) Enable fast analysis model generation, pushing more numerical analysis into the aircraft configuration assessment in the very early development phase, 3) Data continuity through using central multidisciplinary database over the complete Conceptual and Preliminary Design.},

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Aircraft, generally, and military aircraft in particular are complex systems and the demand for high-performance flying platforms is constantly growing regardless whether for civil or military purposes. The development of aircraft is inherently multidisciplinary and the exploitation of the interaction of the design-driving disciplines opens the door for new designs, and consequently, for new high-performance aircraft [1]. An important feature of modern aircraft development processes and procedures is to enable the engineers accessing these design spaces in the concept phase, where the key configuration decisions are made and frozen for later development phases. Furthermore, pushing more MDO and numerical analysis capabilities into the early design phase will support the decision-making process through reliable physical information. It is worth mentioning that these design spaces are very large and can hardly be grasped and explored by humans without a structured approach and massive support of numerical analysis methods. To this end, Airbus Defence and Space - Military Aircraft - established - in collaboration with universities and research institutes [2] [3] - an integrated multidisciplinary aircraft development process, based on flexible parametric geometry models connected to an innovative decentralized MDO platform. This radically different aircraft development process links the conceptual design phase to the preliminary and definition phase fulfilling following requirements addressed by repeatedly conducted technical gap analysis (see Figure 1): 1) Enable intermediate level analysis (fast and accurate methods), 2) Ensure model continuity through flexible parametric geometry models growing in fidelity over the development phases, 3) Enable fast analysis model generation, pushing more numerical analysis into the aircraft configuration assessment in the very early development phase, 3) Data continuity through using central multidisciplinary database over the complete Conceptual and Preliminary Design.