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COMMON LANGUAGE FOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN

CPACS files can hold data from a variety of disciplines considered in an aircraft design process.

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ENABLING INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS

CPACS can be used to model all kinds of aircraft configurations ranging from conventional wing and tube design to highly unconventional configurations such as the Blended Wing Body.

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COLLABORATIVE MDO

CPACS is used for the exchange of data in multi-disciplinary design optimization processes. In combination with an integration framework such as RCE, a complex aircraft design process can be setup containing expert knowledge from different fields/disciplines.

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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.

CPACS 3.3-beta

Over the past months, the CPACS community has been working on numerous enhancements (see Towards CPACS 3.3). We have now combined the work of all the working groups into a beta release in order to provide quick access to all changes in one schema:

Towards CPACS 3.3

As we are approaching the next CPACS release, I would like to present the major enhancements and adjustments we have been discussing over the last months. It should be emphasized that these are not yet final decisions and everyone is invited to participate in the current topics.

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CPACS workshop invitation: development of an ontology for aircraft systems

An increasing amount of aircraft design projects focuses on sustainable and green aviation enabled by advanced system architectures. To reflect the needs of the required data exchange within these projects, an appropriate system parametrization in CPACS needs to be developed. For this purpose we would like to invite experts in …