Certification by Analysis for Propulsion Systems: Building Confidence through Modeling, Uncertainty, and Credibility

Overview

Certification by Analysis is increasingly viewed as a critical enabler for modern propulsion system development, but its success depends less on individual analyses and more on how modeling evidence is structured, validated, and communicated to decision-makers and regulators.

This webinar focuses on how CbA is applied to propulsion and turbomachinery systems, with an emphasis on decision confidence, uncertainty, and credibility, rather than test replacement. Speakers will explore where modeling and simulation add the most value across the propulsion certification life cycle, how uncertainty shapes certification confidence, and why Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) must be treated as an integrated trust framework from the outset.

The session brings together industry and methodological perspectives to examine what has changed to make broader CbA adoption feasible today, and what barriers still limit scale adoption across organizations and regulatory ecosystems.

What Attendees Will Learn

• Where Certification by Analysis delivers the most value in propulsion certification
• How modeling and simulation support certification decisions across lifecycle phases
• Why uncertainty must be made explicit to build regulator and decision-maker confidence
• How VVUQ functions as a unified credibility framework, not separate activities

Who Should Attend

• Propulsion and turbomachinery engineers
• Certification, compliance, and airworthiness engineers
• DERs, ODA members, and regulatory participants
• Modeling and simulation leaders
• Digital engineering and systems engineering managers
• Engineering managers responsible for certification strategy and risk
• Organizations seeking to expand the role of analysis in certification decisions

Speakers

• Alexander Karl, Ph.D., Fellow – Robust Design and Systems Engineering, Rolls-Royce
• Mojibur Rahman, Consulting Engineering, GE Aerospace
• Gaurav Kumar, Technical Account Manager, Ansys, part of Synopsys
• Matt Ladzinski, Marketing Director, A&D, Ansys, part of Synopsys