Electric urban air mobility is rewriting the rules, but flying closer to the weather brings wind, turbulence, and freezing temperatures into play. Heavy batteries limit payload, and extra energy reserves add cost pressure, making efficiency a constant challenge.
Mission diversity increases complexity: unmanned drones deliver supplies, fight fires, support rescue and monitor infrastructure, while defense and surveillance demand endurance. Manned flights like air taxis and rescue transport are emerging, where safety and regulatory compliance are paramount.
- Accelerates Development: Enables engineers to virtually design, test, and validate electrified powertrain systems, reducing costly prototypes while supporting early exploration of battery sizing, thermal management, and propulsion architectures.
- Reduces Risk and Cost: Identify system-level interactions and safety-critical behaviors before physical testing, minimizing technical risk and avoiding expensive redesigns and certification delays.
- Ensures Compliance and Certification: Delivers traceable, repeatable validation data for compliance, helping OEMs meet stringent safety and performance standards faster and more efficiently.
- Optimizes Performance: Simulate energy consumption, noise, and operational efficiency for urban air mobility, enabling optimization of flight profiles for sustainability, passenger comfort, and regulatory compliance.
In a sector where every gram, mile, decibel, and regulation matters, our aircraft simulation software empowers you to overcome the barriers of complexity, cost, and uncertainty.
We simulate not just to predict—but to protect systems from failure to perfect powertrain performance, and to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Because in aerospace, precision is our prime directive— and we will help you boldly venture where no aircraft has gone before.
- Jürgen Schneider, Application Manager, AVL List GmbH
By enabling engineers to explore design alternatives early, analyze complex system interactions, and evaluate safety-critical behaviors long before flight testing begins, simulation significantly reduces risk, development cost, and time to certification. We empower innovators in next-generation aviation with a comprehensive suite of simulation tools that deliver actionable insights across flight dynamics, thermal safety, structural integrity, and mission-critical operations.
AVL CRUISE™ M
AVL CRUISE™ M empowers developers to understand, optimize, and validate aircraft systems before they ever take flight:
- Energy Flow Mapping: Visualize how power moves through the aircraft—from battery to propulsion—using intuitive tools like Sankey diagrams.
- Mission Range and Route Feasibility: Determine real-world operating limits and identify which routes your aircraft can reliably serve.
- System Limit Exploration: Push the boundaries of electric systems, including batteries, fuel cells, and hybrid configurations.
- Validated Models and Input Data: Use trusted simulation models and accurate data for design decisions and precise mission planning.
- Virtual Failure Mode Testing: Simulate faults and control responses to develop safe, efficient strategies—connected to virtual or real hardware.
AVL FIRE™ M
From aerodynamic analysis to heat protection and cooling optimization—AVL FIRE™ M delivers the insights you need to fly smarter.
- Aerodynamic Performance: Quickly access drag and lift parameters to optimize flight control and energy efficiency.
- Component-Level Accuracy: Monitor real operating temperatures of batteries, e-motors, and electronics for reliable performance.
- Smart Cooling Design: Build cooling systems that adapt to tight spaces, light weight and challenging environmental temperatures.
- Precision Payload Deployment: Account for wind patterns and rotor vortices to ensure safe take-offs and landings as well as delivery or unloading—whether it's medical supplies or firefighting agents
AVL EXCITE™ M
AVL EXCITE™ M is a multi-body dynamic simulation software for powertrains that helps you design quieter, more reliable aircraft systems
- Dynamics and NVH: Simulate e-motors, transmissions and turbines to ensure stability, vibration control, and low noise.
- Durability and Fatigue: A holistic approach that includes the whole system allows for the calculation of highly accurate mechanical loads. This enables the prediction of the service life of bearings, shafts, and gears in aviation powertrains.
- Gearbox and Transmission Optimization: Maximize efficiency, balance gear load distribution, and minimize wear in high-speed aviation gearboxes.
- Electrification Support: Evaluate e-motor and inverter dynamics interaction to provide real currents for aviation e-motor NVH optimization.
- Noise and Comfort Engineering: Reduce cabin noise through advanced vibro-acoustic path analysis—critical for eVTOL and urban air mobility.
PreonLab
PreonLab delivers the precision and confidence needed to operate in the most demanding environments
- Environmental Resilience: Evaluate rainwater management and water ingress to ensure operational integrity in harsh weather conditions.
- Water Landing Simulation: Test buoyancy, stability, and survivability in ditching scenarios for amphibious or emergency-capable aircraft.
- Thermal and Lubrication Modeling: Analyze gearbox oil flow and e-motor cooling to enhance endurance and prevent overheating.
- Sloshing and Stability: Simulate internal water tank dynamics to assess drone stability and maneuverability during firefighting or emergency drops.
The mobility revolution is in full swing. This is not just about developing new, more sustainable propulsion systems. Rather, the entire development process is in upheaval - with simulation taking the lead.
Right now, it's important to understand the challenge that each of us - OEMs and suppliers alike - face when it comes to pushing the boundaries of both our design process and our engineers. As the number of different systems grows, departments and team structures are changing. We understand that. At AVL, we go through these processes as well, because we are not just software developers. We are also engineers and therefore users. We implement our knowledge in intuitive workflows, generators, wizards, and evaluations in our software and projects.
We are your global partner in realizing the mobility of the future. A mobility characterized by its minimal impact on the environment. We offer you simulation solutions ranging from component to system analysis. As we are deeply integrated in the development process, our software solutions - tools and projects - enable you to master the challenges of virtualization.
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