Development of a Conceptual Design Tool for Supersonic Transport with a Variable Fidelity Interface

Kurzfassung

The growing attention of supersonic transport (SST) renews economic and environmental concerns. New designs shall improve flight efficiency as well as mission, air traffic management (ATM) & air traffic service (ATS) impact, requiring a flexible and collaborative approach. A conceptual design tool linking to varied fidelity domain is developed in DLR since 2005. The focus areas of this paper are: Expanding openAD to design and evaluate future SST Aircraft within a higher-fidelity workflow. Capabilities demonstration of openAD via sensitivity studies of reference vehicle Concorde, HIASC A, HICAC C and X-59A (publicly available data).