From a Mono-Disciplinary to a Multi-Disciplinary Approach in Aerospace: As Seen from Information and Communication Technology Perspective.

摘要

In Europe, the MDO Consortium has validated the viability of Multi-Disciplinary Optimization (MOD) for simplified but realistic aircraft preliminary design tasks concerning the design of a large civil a/c where a non-trivial interaction is expected between the mono-disciplines of aerodynamic and structures. NLR, one of the Consortium members, has carried out the work in a multi-disciplinary team with specialists from aerodynamics, structures, and information and communication technology (ICT). Whereas the team takes responsibility for the harmonization and coherence of the multi-discipline research, each discipline is responsible for their own discipline's contribution. In particular, the ICT discipline is responsible for the coherence of the activities on ICT level. The most relevant requirements on ICT in a transition from a mono-discipline approach to multi-discipline approach, as the authors experienced them, are presented, along with their solutions, and the results for a wing shape optimization study with simultaneous influence from the aerodynamic and the structures area.