26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-6.2.2

METHODOLOGY FOR AIRCRAFT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE SIZING

C. de Tenorio, D. Mavris, E. Garcia, M. Armstrong
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Keywords: conceptual design, architecture design, functional induction, system sizing, multilevel optimization

In the context of aircraft system architecture design, system specification must be identified. This paper introduces a framework to identify sizing scenarios for each system. Using exploration methods to investigate the aircraft operating space, aircraft requirements are translated into system level requirements, based on most stringent operating conditions.

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