Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Aircraft design is a multidisciplinary field that spans aerodynamics, structures, thermodynamics and propulsion.Prior approaches to this problem have consisted of historical correlations, empirical drag and simplified propulsion system models (Raymer, 2018;Roskam, 2002;Torenbeek, 1982).TASOPT, originally written in FORTRAN and developed by Mark Drela (Drela, 2011;Greitzer et al., 2010), took the approach of basing the aerodynamic, propulsion, and weight estimates on low-order models built on first-principles structural, aerodynamic, thermodynamic theory to the extent possible.This approach gives confidence that optimized aircraft designs generated by the program are not spurious artifacts of inappropriately extrapolated empirical data.This package, TASOPT.jl, is a modern, Julia based implementation of the same principles, written with the goal of extensibility in mind.The current package leverages open source Julia packages where useful to provide an easy-to-read and maintain software.TASOPT.jlalso introduces additional functionality such as capability to model some forms of hydrogen fuel aircraft.In addition, the software allows users to connect it with other aircraft propulsion system tools (such as NPSS) and aircraft environmental impact assessment tools (such as Aviation Emissions Inventory Codes) (Simone et al., 2013).
DOI: 10.21105/joss.08521
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Federal Aviation Administration
Award: G2041968376
OpenAlex ID: W4413959943