A System for Integrated Design and Distributed Simulation of Aircraft Engine in a Computational Grid Environment

In this paper, we introduce the grid technology for distributed simulation by a sample of a developed system for distributed simulation and integrated design to aircraft engine. It provides a flexible environment for defining, modifying and simulating the component-based aero gas turbine models, and enables users to customize and extend the framework in augmenting new functionality or adapting simulation behavior as required. In this system, model components may be distributed across heterogeneous computing architectures and operating systems where object oriented modeling and component pre-construction are employed. Both simulation entity models and network reside in model library. We use GLOBUS3.0 and VEGA grid tools infrastructure as the framework for this system. In addition, the proposed environment is partially independent of aero engine simulation implementation and may be easily incorporated into other simulation implementation.At last a distributed gas turbine engine model is developed and simulated to illustrate the use of the frameworks.