ADVANCES IN COLLABORATIVE CIVIL AERONAUTICAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

Presents the results from a major European research project - Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise (VIVACE) - on the collaborative civil aeronautical enterprise. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in the field of complex systems design.

E. Kesseler has nearly thirty years of experience in the aerospace domain, including real time simulation, embedded software (heading a dedicated department for 8 years), human machine interface, certifiable safe software (including a PhD) and recently in multidisciplinary design. This book reflects the results related to the latter activities. His work covered aircraft, both fixed wing and rotorcraft, air traffic management and satellites. He currently owns his own company.

Professor Marin D. Guenov, MEng, PhD, holds the Chair in Engineering Design at Cranfield University and heads the Advanced Engineering Design Group in the Aerospace Department. He has taken a leading role in a number of national and international research projects supported by the British and European aerospace industry, including the design of complex systems, modelling and simulation, multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization, and infrastructures for collaborative design. Prof. Guenov is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a Chartered Engineer.