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Project progress

The ICENITE project is devided into 2 major work packages (WP). The first WP is academically intensed, and the second WP is more focused on applications. The details of each WP is as follows.

Work Package 1: Improving CEM Capability

This WP is in two parts. The first deals with improving and automating the interface between CAD and CEM code, the second with methods of dealing with the variations inherent within physical systems.

Work Package 1.1:  Improving and Automating the interface between CAD and CEM

This WP will produce a set of tools to prepare CAD data into usable geometry for CEM analyses. (Led by TranscenData)

The detailed tasks are:

  • Task 1:  Preparation of CAD
  • Task 2:  Shrinkwrapping for CEM
  • Task 3:  Geometric Idealisation for CEM
  • Task 4:  CAD/CEM Geometry process automation
  • Task 5:  CEM Solver Integration

This WP is has been finished. View the list of deliverables below:

Work Package 1.2 Development of Variational Analysis Techniques for CEM

This WP will investigate Variational Analysis (VA) to determine the range of possible result levels across the variations in parameters from a minimal set of re-calculations. (Led by University of Nottingham)

This WP is the most difficult part of the whole project, as uncertainty quantification needs to be conducted in the presence of many random input variables.

The University of Nottingham and the University of Liverpool are testing candidate methods for uncertainty quantification.

The BAE Systems is conducting experiments using a dummy fuselage for the VA.

This WP has been finished.

Work Package 2: The Application of Novel Electromagnetic Integration Technologies

This WP is in two parts. The first deals with the identification and specification of potential solutions. These maybe existing or projected, and the WP will include assessments of the performance and illustrative benefits relative to conventional practices. The second is concerned with the development of rules for installation design and the practical validation of these.

Work Package 2.1:  Cables and Connector Systems

This WP will be led by MIRA.

Available cable systems, connectors and signal interconnect technologies will be surveyed; technologies now in manufacture, technologies that might be modified to meet the requirements defined herein and technologies developed for other industrial sectors will be considered.

Three candidate solutions will be selected for further assessment. In this WP, theoretical analyses, using different methods, will be performed to yield information on performance, usability and ageing aspects. Comparisons will be devised such that advantages over conventional technologies can be enumerated.

This WP has been finished.

Work Package 2.2: Optimisation of Installed Architectures for Electromagnetic Performance

This WP will be led by BAE Systems.

The architecture and installation approach used in systems design will influence significantly the vulnerability of the systems as a result of cable lengths, routing relative to platform structure (taking due account of local geometry and materials).  At present, cable design and layout guidance is generally imprecise and does not account for optimum performance for resilience against electromagnetic threats. Furthermore, such existing guidance will not be appropriate to potential structured solutions. Therefore, this part of the WP will remedy this by developing a set of quantitative rules for the design and installation of the proposed solutions that are based upon and justified by computational analyses. 

The rules and guidance drafted above will be tested and validated using practical assessments of trial systems installations within the dummy CFC fuselage utilised in WP1.2. This programme of practical testing will form the final verification of the research. As such it will include a check of the Variational Analysis methods developed under WP1.2 by application to the proposed solutions.  

This WP has been finished.