Electric Aircraft Simulation
GT-SUITE offers a unique and comprehensive solution for modeling electrified aircraft, subsystems, and components
Battery Modeling ENERGY STORAGE
- Predict range, state-of-health, and aging of electrified propulsion systems
- Electrically discretize battery systems to account for losses in battery wiring or cell-balancing circuits
- Ensure optimized vehicle energy management
3-DoF or 6-DoF FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- 3-DOF and 6-DOF dynamic models for any flight mission
- Ensure optimized vehicle energy management
Learn more Electric AircraftAPPLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
- Predict range, state-of-health, and aging of electrified propulsion systems
- Ensure optimized vehicle energy management
- Verify thermal management designs and control strategies for components all the way to complete systems
- Complete electrical and thermal system simulation, including motors, power electronics, batteries, fuel cells, piston engines, gas turbines
- 3-DOF and 6-DOF dynamic models for any flight mission
- Proven and validated battery and thermal system modeling
- Build controls using a comprehensive controls library, including finite state machines in GTSUITE, or co-simulate with Simulink to develop and optimize control algorithms
- Easy results viewing and optimization
Advanced Features
- Lithium-Ion battery model with calibration data available
- Electrically discretize battery systems to account for losses in battery wiring or cell-balancing circuits
- Integration of battery thermal management systems with electrical solution for module-to-module, cell-to-cell, or intracellular temperature and current distribution
- Integration of thermal management system to ensure proper temperature control of components, while ensuring pleasant cabin comfort
- Characterization of battery models using test data (i.e discharge curves or HPPC test data)
Run Integrated Simulations With:
- Various power systems, including: batteries, fuel cells, piston engines, gas turbines
- Battery, fuel cell, gas turbine systems
- Power electronics and motors
- Thermal Management systems
- 3-DOF and 6-DOF dynamic models
- Controls systems
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Learn more about Electric AircraftsRELEVANT TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
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- Airbus eVTOL battery thermal and aging
- NASA battery thermal runaway
- eVTOL Dynamics and Energy Management
- Reduced-order Thermal Modeling of Liquid-cooled Lithium-ion Battery Pack for EVs and HEVs
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