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Five Trends in the Aerospace
Industry
ome of the biggest aerospace combustion engine performance autonomous flight systems are
Sindustry trends in 2020 will while developing electrical and fundamental to the future of
focus on improving: hybrid propulsion systems, too. space travel. Companies are
building the business case for
• Propulsion. These engines ‘ aeroacoustics local air transportation — the
will also be a design priority.
• Autonomous systems. This is particularly necessary aforementioned UAM. These
aircraft systems would connect
• Additive manufactured parts. since drones and urban air nearby regional airports. The
mobility (UAM) vehicles are economics behind UAM only
• Maintenance, repair and starting to fly over populated work by reducing the crew to
operations (MRO). areas. a single pilot or an unmanned
These movements in the Producing these new flight system.
aerospace industry all combine systems will require an in-depth Single pilot aircraft require a
into one last trend, the added understanding of the high- high degree of automation and
complexity of flight systems. altitude performance of: a cockpit redesign. To perform
The only way to safely address this cockpit redesign, engineers
the complexity of flight systems, • Materials. can use:
and meet market demands, is • Batteries.
to use multiphysics simulation • ANSYS SCADE to optimize
across the entire life cycle of • Inverters. the embedded software.
the product, from pre-design to
MRO operations. • Cables. • ANSYS optical simulations
to ensure the pilot can read
1. Reduce Flight Costs and • Control electronics. instruments in all weather
Emissions through Electric and • Software. conditions.
Hybrid Engines
Multiphysics simulations enable To develop fully autonomous
Aerospace theorists stress engineers to account for all of aircraft, engineers will need
the need to preserve the these variables when designing to perform closed-
environment and obey the electric and hybrid aircraft loop simulations
rules, while at the same time engines. between the sensors,
improving aircraft engine control software
efficiency. 2. Autonomous Flight and intelligent
Systems Will Be the Future of algorithms. Virtual
In other words, aircraft engines the Aerospace Industry realities and
need to output more power multiphysics
while consuming less fuel, Autonomous flight systems are simulation will
producing less noise and another trend in the aerospace be the only ways
releasing less emissions. industry. Autonomy will to test these autonomous flight
take on many forms — from
To achieve this goal, the drones to space vehicles. Any systems to react to all possible
aerospace industry is improving science fiction fan knows that situations in a reasonable
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