22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-2.8.1

AEROSTATION - A COBRA COMPONENTS APPROACH TO AERODYNAMIC DESIGN FRAMEWORK

C. Casties (1), A. Soulard (1), E. Chaput (1), L. Barrera (1), J. Huchard (2)
(1) AEROSPATIALE MATRA AIRBUS, France; (2) Sema Group, France

Keywords: corba,uml, wrapping, cfd, framework, damas

An open architecture for a component framework was defined and implemented at the AEROSPATIALE MATRA AIRBUS aerodynamics department to provide traceability of the whole process by embedding organisation tools, commercial codes and in-house codes, and to free end-users from information technology details. The objectives of this framework are to accelerate the engineering of research outcomes by allowing existing codes reusability, as well as to reduce the cost of development by shortening the aerodynamics design cycle by 30%. This paper presents the methodology used for designing and deploying the aerodynamics design framework, the AeroStation.

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