NEXTAIR: Multi-disciplinary digital - enablers for NEXT-generation AIRcraft design and operations

为了实现气候中立航空的目标，需要彻底改变飞机的配置和运营。为了促进这一转变，创新的数字方法对于实现飞机性能的优化至关重要。NEXTAIR将开发和展示创新的设计方法、数据融合技术和智能健康评估工具，使飞机设计、制造和维护实现数字化转型。NEXTAIR建议覆盖整个飞机生命周期的数字推进器，致力于简化突破性技术成熟、完美投入服务和智能健康评估。它们将在8个工业测试案例中进行演示，代表多物理工业设计、维护问题和环境挑战，并引起飞机和发动机制造商的兴趣。NEXTAIR将提高高保真建模和模拟能力，以加速和降低新的颠覆性配置和突破性技术设计的风险。NEXTAIR还将提高不确定性量化和稳健优化技术的效率，以有效地考虑飞机和发动机部件工业多学科设计中的制造不确定性和操作可变性。最后，NEXTAIR将扩展机器学习驱动方法的可用性，为飞机和发动机部件的智能原型和维护的数字配对做出贡献。NEXTAIR汇集了来自6个国家和地区的16个合作伙伴，他们擅长不同的学科：数字工具、高级建模和仿真、人工智能、机器学习、航空航天设计和创新制造。该联盟包括9个研究机构、4个提供数字实物演示飞机和发动机的领先航空行业，以及2个提供工业科学计算和数据智能专业知识的高科技中小企业。

Radical changes in aircraft configurations and operations are required to meet the target of climate-neutral aviation. To foster this transformation, innovative digital methodologies are of utmost importance to enable the optimisation of aircraft performances. NEXTAIR will develop and demonstrate innovative design methodologies, data-fusion techniques and smart health-assessment tools enabling the digital transformation of aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance. NEXTAIR proposes digital enablers covering the whole aircraft life-cycle devoted to ease breakthrough technology maturation, their flawless entry into service and smart health assessment. They will be demonstrated in 8 industrial test cases, representative of multi-physics industrial design, maintenance problems and environmental challenges and interest for aircraft and engines manufacturers. NEXTAIR will increase high-fidelity modelling and simulation capabilities to accelerate and derisk new disruptive configurations and breakthrough technologies design. NEXTAIR will also improve the efficiency of uncertainty quantification and robust optimisation techniques to effectively account for manufacturing uncertainty and operational variability in the industrial multi-disciplinary design of aircraft and engine components. Finally, NEXTAIR will extend the usability of machine learning-driven methodologies to contribute to aircraft and engine components' digital twinning for smart prototyping and maintenance. NEXTAIR brings together 16 partners from 6 countries specialised in various disciplines: digital tools, advanced modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, aerospace design, and innovative manufacturing. The consortium includes 9 research organisations, 4 leading aeronautical industries providing digital-physical scaled demonstrator aircraft and engines and 2 highTech SME providing expertise in industrial scientific computing and data intelligence.