Application Case: Family Concept
Ambition: Design a family of three business jets, trading-off aircraft performance and investment costs by varying the amount of shared components.
Models
Below you can download the models produced during the development process of this Application Case
Stakeholders, needs and Requirements | |
Operational Scenario | |
Aircraft architectures | |
MDO formulation – Aircraft level MDO formulation – Family level | |
AC-Family-CPACS |
MDO Workflow
Results
All the results can be download here.
Take away
- The AGILE4.0 Framework can be used to succesfully explore the design space and find the Pareto front between family-level Direct Operating Costs (DOC) and OEM Non-Recurring Costs (NRC)
- An increase in the number of components shared generally leads to lower family-level NRC, however at the cost of less efficient aircraft components and therefore higher average DOC.