Pipistrel: flying straight from simulation to production
ESTECO optimization technology as a way to skip the prototyping phase for a hybrid-electric aircraft propeller
Newsletter EnginSoft Year 18 n°3
Pipistrel, an aviation and aerospace company based in Slovenia, chose ESTECO technologies to design the propeller for a highly efficient, hybrid-electric aircraft.
The work was part of the EU-funded project MAHEPA (Modular Approach to Hybrid Electric Propulsion Architecture), which aimed to advance two variants of a low-emission, serial, hybridelectric propulsion architecture to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6. modeFRONTIER process automation and optimization software enabled the simulation process to be automated so that innovative and optimized designs could be identified in a limited amount of time.
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