Cranfield is the only university in the world
with its own airport, airline status
its own aircraft, its own pilots
and crucially its own air traffic control and navigation services.
services we have a huge team that is
very involved in aircraft vehicle design
so designing aerospace vehicles of the future.
So we have this wonderful array of facilities that are relevant to aerospace of the future
And the aerospace is at a really interesting juncture in its development.
There are a lot of exciting things happening in the aviation industry,
we see on one side that there's a major growth in air travel demand
which needs to be responded by the aviation industry one side
but on the other side we also need to make air travel sustainable.
We will need to reduce the ecological footprint of the aviation industry drastically.
The industry will have to innovate a lot in order to reach the targets
that have been set by flight path 2050 and by ACARE.
So, as the aerospace industry looks to the future
it is looking at all the ways of actually reducing emissions
so it needs to make sure that its existing
propulsion methods gas turbines and so on,
operate as efficiently as possible but
with as low emissions as possible
and it then also needs to look to future methods of propulsion
so that it can also understand those, bring them on stream as effectively as possible
where they do contribute to the reduction in emissions.
For hybrid electrical propulsion units it's very important to understand
how the gas turbine connects
to the electrical generator
how it connects to the electrical power distribution system,
the battery system, and the electrical propulsion unit
that drive the propellers or the fans.
So in order to create that integrated view of the behavior of the aircraft during its mission,
we developed already since 8 years
a solution package called the
virtual integrated aircraft capabilities
that make it possible to basically model
each individual system separately
like the environmental control system
the pneumatic system, ice protection system
hydraulic system etc.
But on the other side we have also made sure that all
these different systems can connect to each other
to a virtual integrated aircraft.
We at Siemens we have been developing within Simcenter Amesim,
different libraries that basically address
all different power systems of the aircraft.
We have been creating specific libraries for the environmental control systems,
for the landing gear, for the hydraulic systems
and we have right now also developed specific libraries for hybrid electrical propulsion units.
In that context we work together with Cranfield University to make sure that
the gas turbine component of our libraries
are basically developed in the
right way that they are addressing the right physics, that are specifically needed for hybrid electrical propulsion.
Cranfield is working in collaboration
with Siemens Digital Industry Software
on the Simcenter Amesim software.
We are supporting the Siemens modeling capability
we're bringing expertise in models in demonstrations
and expertise around the tools that actually support that modeling capability.
Cranfield University also has a lot of expertise a lot of experimental data
to validate the basic assumptions
of the different elements in the gas turbine library of Simcenter Amesim.
The partnership started about two years ago
and has now produced outcomes which are an integral part of the software.
Partnerships with the academic world are very important to Siemens
because they allow us to bring certain new products faster to the market.
The academic world helps us to develop
new methods, new ways to calculate the physics of certain aircraft components
but on the other side the academic world
has also a lot of experimental data that
allows to basically bring in that credibility
that allows to create a lot of validation data
and doing that validation data to our customers
when they integrate these libraries here
specifically hybrid electrical propulsion unit libraries
in context of their aircraft.
Cranfield is at the heart of the aerospace of the future including the digital aviation agenda
and our collaboration with Siemens Digital Industry Software we see as very positive in that context.
Cranfield University also worked on different application cases
that we included in our online help
and that can be used by our customers as some kind of kickstart model
in context of hybrid electrical propulsion.
So, Cranfield University basically helped us to
make these libraries ready for the industry from the start.