What is CPACS?

The Common Parametric Aircraft Configuration Schema (CPACS) is a data definition for the air transportation system. CPACS enables engineers to exchange information between their tools. It is therefore a driver for multi-disciplinary and multi-fidelity design in distributed environments. CPACS describes the characteristics of aircraft, rotorcraft, engines, climate impact, fleets and mission in a structured, hierarchical manner. Not only product but also process information is stored in CPACS. The process information helps in setting up workflows for analysis modules. Due to the fact that CPACS follows a central model approach, the number of interfaces is reduced to a minimum.

Cite & Acknowledge

CPACS is available as Open Source and we encourage anyone to make use of it. If you are applying CPACS in a scientific environment and publish any related work, please cite the following artice:

M. Alder, E. Moerland, J. Jepsen and B. Nagel. Recent Advances in Establishing a Common Language for Aircraft Design with CPACS. Aerospace Europe Conference 2020, Bordeaux, France, 2020.

Presentation of cpacsLibrary at DLRK 2022

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At the DLRK congress in Dresden, the prototype of a new software library, called cpacsLibrary, was presented under the title:

** Development of a Software Library for Performant and Consistent CPACS Data Processing **

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Introduction of regular developer meetings

2021 developer meeting

On November 18, we successfully kicked-off a new format of regular meetings concerning CPACS development. A group of 15 participants from university, research institutions and industry discussed how the meetings can be organized efficiently. We agreed on regular meetings at intervals of 13 weeks, in which general topics concerning CPACS …

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