The Modeling Advanced Aircraft Propulsion (MAAP
) tool is a software suite that optimizes propulsion and power generation systems for flight applications. It is used by aerospace engineers and designers to virtually model “what if” configuration scenarios for new electric and hybrid electric aircraft systems for the aerospace, defense, thermal management, power generation, and Advanced Air Mobility markets.
Companies can discover how a vehicle’s powertrain or electrical power system is architected and performs based on different propulsion and power generation system models. Using the MAAP tool, potential costly mistakes can be avoided early in the design process.
The Modeling Advanced Aircraft Propulsion (MAAP) tool is a software suite that optimizes propulsion and power generation systems for flight applications. It is used by aerospace engineers and designers to virtually model “what if” configuration scenarios for new electric and hybrid-electric aircraft systems for the aerospace, defense, thermal management, power generation, and Advanced Air Mobility markets.
Companies can discover how a vehicle’s powertrain or electrical power system is architected and performs based on different propulsion and power generation system models. Using the MAAP tool, potential costly mistakes can be avoided early in the design process.
• Optimizes an electric machine and controller combination at multiple (unlimited)
…operating points subject to dozens of constraints at each point
• Operational and design constraints have been identified and modeled based on
…LaunchPoint’s decades of experience
• Analyzes the off-design performance of electric machine and controller combinations
• Readily performs system-level trade studies including requirements trades, operating
…point trades, and technology trades – MAAP will even perform simultaneous
…combined trade studies
• Unlocks additional weight and performance for your design
• Physics-based electric machine and control electronics models, not curve fits to existing
…hardware. MAAP can model “out of the box” designs that may be far from any
…existing designs
• Extensive set of technology parameters can be adjusted to examine the impact of new
…technology on propulsion and power generation system performance
• Optimizes an electric machine and controller combination at multiple (unlimited) operating points subject to dozens of constraints at each point
• Operational and design constraints have been identified and modeled based on LaunchPoint’s decades of experience
• Analyzes the off-design performance of electric machine and controller combinations
• Readily performs system-level trade studies including requirements trades, operating point trades, and technology trades – MAAP will even perform simultaneous combined trade studies
• Unlocks additional weight and performance for your design
• Physics-based electric machine and control electronics models, not curve fits to existing hardware. MAAP can model “out of the box” designs that may be far from any existing designs
• Extensive set of technology parameters can be adjusted to examine the impact of new technology on propulsion and power generation system performance
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• MAAP optimizes key design variables and evaluates hundreds of these variables related to system design and performance
• Electric Machines and Controllers
Design and Analyses of mass, size, efficiency, temperature, life
• Combined Optimization of power and control systems and fuller aircraft performance
Why MAAP?
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• Enables making “Big” decisions early in an aircraft design
• Avoids potential expensive design mistakes with reliable models
• Evaluates design trades and finds optimal solutions for combined vehicle and propulsion optimized together as a system
• Designs and validates initial subsystem choices to within ~ 15 % accuracy
• Play “What if” to conduct sensitivity analyses on trade studies
MAAP Features
Fundamental Physics-based Analytical Models Focused on Aeronautical Usage
•
Design
• Axial-Flux Dual-Halbach-Array and Radial-Flux Iron-Core Electric Machines
• Electric Machine Controllers
• Generator Power Electronics – passive and smart
Optimize
• Combined Electric Machine/Generator/Controller/Gearbox System
Analyze
• On-Design
• Off-Design (“A day in the life of the real system…”)
Deliver
• Estimates mass and energy losses within 15 % of the final values
• Maximum specific power electric machine and controller design
• Electric machine/controller co-design for minimum mass
Outputs
Performance Predictions over Wide Operations
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