Speakers:
Marco Ferrogalini | Vice President , Head of Modelling and Simulations (MBSE) & Sandrine Rolland | ZeroE A/C Architect for V&V strategy, Airbus
Abstract:
Airbus is progressing on his journey to put in commercial service a zero emission Aircraft by 2035. In the last few days we have revealed our development on a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine. We consider this propulsion system as one of the potential solutions to reach our ambition. We will continue on our trajectory, next key step will be to start ground and flight testing this fuel cell engine architecture onboard our ZEROe demonstrator aircraft towards the middle of the decade.
In order to support this very challenging development, fully inline with our company’s purpose, “pioneering sustainable aerospace for a better and united world“, digitalization will be a key enabler. That’s why back in 2019 we have launched our main digital transformation program DDMS, one of the key pillars is on modelling and simulation and MBSE. These will permit us to de risk upfront all those new technologies via complex simulations in a very integrated manner across all the different disciplines and engineering teams. This new challenge is in fact highly multidisciplinary and will require to find a design global optimum instead of a typical set of local ones.