Abstract
Evaluation and assessment of novel technologies for aerospace applications is essential for business strategy and decision making regarding development efforts. However, technology evaluation and assessment are challenging to perform objectively using a structured approach. As a first step towards a more objective and structured approach a graph-based description of engineering systems is described herein. Analyses can be applied to such a description through pattern matching, after which the quantities of interest can be computed by an automated algorithm using a dependency graph. The approach is applied to a simplified aircraft model, to perform a mission analysis and compute fuel burn. It is shown the method successfully computes the required parameter and is easily adapted to analyze an electric aircraft as well.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum |
| Subtitle of host publication | 7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California, USA |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-62410-578-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 - San Diego, United States Duration: 7 Jan 2019 → 11 Jan 2019 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/MSCITECH19 |
Conference
| Conference | AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego |
| Period | 7/01/19 → 11/01/19 |
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Bibliographical note
Accepted Author Manuscript“New title: Formalizing Technology Descriptions for Selection During Conceptual Design”