Engineering Simulation Solutions for the Aerospace Industry

In the past decades, aircraft development has been completely revolutionized. The aircraft industry has been challenged as a whole by numerous constraints such as currency fluctuations, safety regulations, fuel prices or new materials. The integration of enterprise-wide technologies such as computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle management (PLM) has accelerated the overall design process.

It is clear that simulation - and more generally computer-aided engineering (CAE) - is a cornerstone of current technological advances. The challenge is to accurately predict the performance of the complete vehicle. The vehicle itself is comprised of sophisticated subsystems such as:

• Airframes and aerostructures, including composites
• Aircraft engines (turbojets, turbofans, turboshafts, turboprops, internal combustion engines)
• Auxiliary power units (APU’s)
• Avionics
• Environmental control systems
• Flaps and high-lift devices
• Flight control systems
• Inlets, diffusers, nozzles and thrust reversers
• Landing gear
• Propellers
• Pylons and nacelles
• Rotors (rotary-wing aircraft)
• Safety systems, including anti-icing and de-icing equipment,  pilot ejection systems and fire suppression systems
• Store separation systems (for military aircraft)
• Wings and aerodynamic sections

Companies are integrating simulation at all stages of the design process, putting the design at the heart of a virtual environment. This is what Simulation Driven Product Development is all about.

As the pioneer of Simulation Driven Product Development , ANSYS helps aircraft companies achieve their goal of zero-rework, accelerating even further the development process and reducing design cost while enabling innovation, creativity and quality.

In order to do this, ANSYS provides the most comprehensive and advanced simulation portfolio available, enabling true multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO). The portfolio is comprised of well-known finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software including ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Multiphysics, ANSYS ICEM CFD, ANSYS ICEM CFD Cart3D, ANSYS CFX, FLUENT, ANSYS TAS, and application specific products such as ANSYS TurboGrid, ANSYS BladeModeler, ANSYS AUTODYN, ANSYS LS-DYNA and ANSYS Icepak.

Simulation Solutions for the Aircraft Industry Brochure (pdf)

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ANSYS ICEM CFD Cart3d simulation showing an F-16 releasing a store