Preliminary Aircraft Design within a Multidisciplinary and Multifidelity Design Environment

Kurzfassung

In this paper, the preliminary aircraft design tool openAD is presented. Over the past years the DLR has developed a multidisciplinary and multifidelity design environment for aircraft design to evaluate and assess various concepts and technologies at aircraft level. Thereby, a valid and consistent design can be derived by a minimum set of top-level aircraft requirements. This design environment is highly modular where the domain specific tools are provided and hosted across the different DLR institutes. As part of the design process, openAD was developed as the key enabler for overall aircraft design and assessment.