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Rotorcraft virtual engineering; supporting life-cycle engineering through design and development, test and certification and operations

Part of: Rotorcraft Virtual Engineering Conference 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2018

G. D. Padfield
G. D. Padfield*
Affiliation:
Aerospace Engineering, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
*
gareth.padfield@liverpool.ac.uk
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Abstract

The rotorcraft industry needs Virtual Engineering first to ensure decisions made early in the life-cycle, at the requirements capture and preliminary design phases for example, are reliably informed. Later, in design, development and qualification, Virtual Prototypes can become the centre of attention for critical reviews and, ultimately, certification itself. A significant challenge is to ensure that model fidelity is good enough, not only for supporting design decisions but also in establishing requirements based on sufficiently mature technologies. This international conference, Rotorcraft virtual engineering; supporting life-cycle engineering through design and development, test and certification and operations and co-sponsored by the RAeS/AHS/A3F/DGLR/AIDAA addressed these themes and this paper reviews and assesses the value of the various contributions.

Keywords

Rotorcraft: virtual engineeringmodelling and simulationlife cycle Classification Description: Aerospace DesignCompositesComputational Fluid DynamicsFlight SimulationRotorcraft
Type
Survey Papers
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 122 , Issue 1255 , September 2018 , pp. 1475 - 1495
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2018 

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Footnotes

This survey article acts as an introductory paper to those gathered together as a collection from the Rotorcraft Virtual Engineering Conference from Nov 2016, on the journal website at cambridge.org/aer

References

* Papers (19) and (22) were withdrawn and hence not presented at the conference, or discussed in this report.