The Wolfram Solution for Aerospace Engineering and Defense
Analyze test data, mathematically optimize new aircraft designs or prototype aviation systems.
Underlying the Wolfram aerospace engineering and defense solution are advanced symbolic and numeric functions for data analysis, control systems and other calculations, plus interactive 2D and 3D graphics abilities. They all work together in the most automated and reliable computation, development and deployment environment available.
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- Key Capabilities
Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions that let you:
- Model and test complex systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles, space robotics and aircraft dynamics with Wolfram System Modeler
- Quickly prototype aircraft designs and turn them into 3D models
- Automatically compute design quantities, including closed-loop transfer functions, PID parametrizations and more
- Compute the optimal controls needed to minimize fuel use or travel time
- Fit tire skid data to determine parameters for anti-skid algorithms or design aircraft for safe gear-up landings
- Perform aerodynamic, structural mechanics and other numeric and symbolic calculations
- Model airplane approaches on parallel runways, introduce errors and study the statistics of near misses
- Perform system-level design and optimization of an entire aircraft to meet safety regulations
- Create prototypes from mathematical models of fundamental equations of motion and transform them into C code to work with your current system
- Use model analysis to solve problems early, before expensive cockpit simulations or flight tests
- Analyze flight data before and after a mission to compare performance to predicted behavior
- Prototype new control systems using symbolic capabilities to derive dynamic equations
- Model the behavior of new lightweight materials for aerospace manufacturing
- Predict failure of components or subsystems with built-in reliability analysis functionality
Does your current tool set have these advantages?
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Free-form linguistic input produces immediate results without the need for syntax
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Symbolic as well as numeric calculations to manipulate numbers, equations or pieces of code, improving accuracy or creating reusable models
Matlab's built-in routines only handle numeric calculations -
Fully automated precision control and arbitrary precision arithmetic to ensure accurate results
Matlab and other systems relying on machine arithmetic can show critical errors due to numerical accuracy failure -
One integrated system to scrub, filter and visualize data with any kind of analysis
Tecplot 360 graphics must be exported to other programs for presentation or publication -
Analyze and optimize designs in one system, using built-in constrained and unconstrained optimization routines
Matlab requires an extra-cost toolbox and Pro/Engineer requires the extra-cost Pro/Mechanica add-on for optimization - Instant interactivity for creating tools that provide visual feedback to make debugging and testing innovative instrumentation easier
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Wavelet transforms, filtering and more built in to a single computational engine
Matlab and Mathcad require purchasing additional software for wavelet capabilities -
Automated algorithm selection to get accurate results quickly—sometimes switching mid-calculation for further optimization
Other systems like Matlab make you analyze your equations manually to determine which function to apply -
Choose from procedural, functional and rule-based programming paradigms to create efficient code
Other computation environments use predominantly procedural languages
Aerospace engineering and defense specific capabilities:
- Efficient and flexible pre- and post-processing of data from satellites, aircraft, spacecraft, sensors or wind tunnel tests, with advanced analysis and statistics features »
- Numeric and symbolic differential equation solving with highly optimized superfunctions »
- Built-in functionality for designing and analyzing control systems, including models with time delays and algebraic equations »
- Automatic tuning of PID controllers »
- Integrated wavelet analysis with discrete and continuous transforms and high-level support for thresholding and other operations »
- Built-in stream vector plots to visualize air flow, plus advanced 2D and 3D graphics for data visualization
- Industrial-strength image processing and analysis capabilities for satellite imagery »
- Complete functionality for reliability analysis, including importance measures for pinpointing subsystems that help improve system reliability »
- Built-in support for more than 4,500 units—including free-form linguistic entry, conversions and dimensional consistency checking across graphics and numeric and symbolic calculations »
- High-level programming language for efficient prototyping of new aircraft designs »
- The Manipulate command for instantly building interactive models »
- Symbolic manipulation and optimization of C code and automatic C code generation for immediate use of standalone executables in production systems
- Load and access dynamic libraries and use built-in support for GPU computation with CUDA or OpenCL for high-speed, memory-efficient execution
- Built-in parallel computing on multicore systems that scales up to a full grid »
- Close integration with C/C++ and other languages, databases, Java, .NET and other applications »
- Robust support for hassle-free export to various CAD packages, including DXF, STL and ZPR formats »
Wolfram System Modeler is the most complete physical modeling and simulation tool for high-fidelity modeling. With System Modeler, you can:
- Build models of large multidomain systems using simple drag-and-drop of ready-made components »
- Build up complex models in layers with separately testable and reusable subcomponents
- Design and simulate real-world systems that exhibit rapid changes or discontinuities »
- Connect seamlessly with Mathematica for the ultimate integrated modeling, simulation and analysis workflow
"Being able to combine the generation of airplane trajectories with the statistics related to them in such a very small package is amazing."
Mike UlreyAdvanced Air Traffic Management, Boeing
"I think software in engineering and math should not be done like it is usually done in other programming languages. Mathematica is much richer, and there are more possibilities."
Yves PapegayINRIA
"Without Mathematica, my performance would suffer."
Bruce CollettiDefense Contractor Consultant
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