Concepts for a future aircraft design environment
- Lockheed Advanced Development Co., Burbank, CA (United States)
One of the means to the efficient exploration of aerospace 'design space' is the use of extremely flexible tools for parametric design, which may be regarded as the task of making those decisions which furnish values for quantities needed to create a specific object from an overall concept for that type of object. The Engineer's Scratch Pad (ESP) is a software system for the implementation of just such a parametric-design strategy which specifies the calculations to be performed via some combination of equations and data-flow diagrams. ESP has been successfully applied in recent years to vehicle conceptual design, environmental control system design, heat-exchanger design, and production-process analyses. 17 refs.
- OSTI ID:
- 5009477
- Report Number(s):
- AIAA-Paper-92-1188; CONF-9202119-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: AIAA aerospace design conference, Irvine, CA (United States), 3 Feb 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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