Ad hoc Collaborative Design with Focus on Iterative Multidisciplinary Process Chain Development applied to Thermal Management of Spacecraft

Abstract

In multidisciplinary design optimization, different experts from different disciplines located often at different sites solve a problem in common. Effi�cient and effective collaboration is essential. This paper describes an approach how software technologies enable ad hoc collaboration during the development of process chains used in multidisciplinary design optimization. The German Aerospace Center develops a framework that supports this kind of ad hoc collaboration. It is used for optimizing the thermal management of spacecraft. As a result, the development phase of the process chain gets more effi�cient, because the technical effort of collaboration is reduced.