Simultaneous Multi-design Point Approach to Gas Turbine On-design Cycle Analysis for Aircraft Engines

Through implementation of simultaneous MDP, a comprehensive cycle design space can be created quickly for the most complex of cycle design problems. Furthermore, the process documents the creation of each candidate engine providing transparency as to how each engine cycle was designed to meet all of the requirements. The cycle analyst is intricately involved in the simultaneous MDP method using their knowledge and expertise in the first two phases to define and setup the cycle design space, but are removed from the more time consuming task of finding each design that meets all of the requirements. As this process is left to the solver, the computational efficiency of the Newton-Raphson solver allows for the creation of numerous candidate engines to comprehensively cover the cycle design space.