Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft (TOICA)
Research Project, 2013 – 2016

Thermal behaviour of aircraft has recently become a crucial subject due to many factors: increasing number of complex systems required by modern, more electric, commercial aircraft, the introduction of hotter engines with higher by-pass ratios, the increased use of composite material in aircraft structures, or the confinement of highly dissipative equipment and systems in smaller areas to earn space for passengers and cargo.

New advanced techniques to manage the aircraft thermal behaviour at the very early stages of development are essential to take the right configuration decisions while meeting market demands. To work efficiently and on emerging innovative solutions, it is essential to perform thermal management at the global aircraft level. Today, thermal studies are performed for sizing and risk analyses.

The TOICA project intends to radically change the way thermal studies are performed within aircraft design processes. It will create and manage a thermal aircraft architecture which today does not exist. This will be shared in the extended enterprise with design partners through a collaborative environment supporting new advanced capabilities developed by the project, namely the architect cockpit, which will allow the architects and experts to monitor the thermal assessment of an aircraft and to perform trade-off studies. Super integration will support a holistic view of the aircraft and allow traditional design views and the related simulation cascade to be challenged.

Six use cases illustrating new thermal strategies will demonstrate the benefits of the TOICA approach on realistic aircraft configurations. Plateaus will be organised with architects for the definition, selection and evaluation of thermally optimised aircraft configurations. These plateaus will drumbeat the project. In parallel, technology readiness evaluations will assess the maturity of the developed technologies and support the deployment and exploitation of the TOICA results.

Participants

Hans L Johannesson (contact)

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Anders Forslund

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Tomas Grönstedt

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics

Ola Isaksson

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Jonas Landahl

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Christoffer E Levandowski

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Olivier Petit

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics

Dag Raudberget

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Rikard Söderberg

Product and Production Development

Collaborations

Airbus Group

Leiden, Netherlands

Alenia Aermacchi

Venegono Superiore Va, Italy

Arttic

Paris, France

Atherm

Domene, France

Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique Asbl (Cenaero)

Gosselies, Belgium

Cranfield University

Cranfield - Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Dassault Aviation

Paris, France

Dassault Systemes

Velizy Villacoublay, France

Eurocopter Sas

Marignane, France

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), France

Paris, France

Eurostep Group

Stockholm, Sweden

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Köln, Germany

GKN Aerospace Sweden

Trollhättan, Sweden

Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse

Toulouse, France

LMS Imagine

Roanne, France

Maya Heat Transfer Technologies

Montreal Westmount, Canada

MSC Software Corporation

Munich, Germany

National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Office national d'etudes et de recherches aerospatiales (ONERA)

Chatillon, France

Queen's University Belfast

Belfast, United Kingdom

Samtech

Angleur, Belgium

Siemens Industry Software

Camberley, United Kingdom

Snecma

Paris, France

Thales Group

Neuilly Sur Seine, France

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

University of Padua

Padova, Italy

XRG Simulation

Hamburg, Germany

Zodiac Aerotechnics

Plaisir, France

Funding

European Commission (EC)

Project ID: EC/FP7/604981
Funding Chalmers participation during 2013–2016

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Sustainable development

Driving Forces

Transport

Areas of Advance

Production

Areas of Advance

Publications

More information

Project Web Page at Chalmers

http://www.chalmers.se/en/projects/Pages/T...

Latest update

2020-09-02