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DIGITAL TWINS

Multi-physics numerical simulation will be key to analyzing and optimizing unconventional configurations like MIT’s D8. Credit: MIT

Korean Air Flies A380 To Paris

Korean Air is upgrading it service between Seoul Incheon International Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport with the commencement of Airbus A380 service. The carrier’s A380, equipped with 12 suites in first class and 94 lie-flat seats in business class, replaced the 291-seat Boeing 777-300 aircraft previously used on the route, boosting the route’s total capacity by 40 percent. Korean Air currently operates eight A380s, with plans to add two more of the double-decker aircraft to its fleet by the end of the year.

digital twin

It is 2035, and a customer is taking delivery of not only a new aircraft but also a highly detailed digital model specific to that aircraft’s tail number—its airframe, engines and systems. 

Built up over the course of design, development, testing and production, and ultra-realistic down to the level of unique manufacturing flaws, the model will accompany the aircraft throughout its service life. Mirroring its flights exactly, the model’s simulations will be compared with data from the real aircraft to identify anomalies, predict maintenance needs and forecast remaining life.

The “digital twin” is one effort under way to push computational engineering tools to new levels of capability, from model-based design through virtual prototyping and flight testing, to simulation-based certification. To achieve the vision will require substantial government and industry investment in advancing and integrating design tools such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aerodynamics and finite element modeling (FEM) for structures.

Airport Near-Miss Caught On Video

Passengers at Barcelona's El Prat Airport had a lucky escape after two planes nearly collided when one flight taxied across the runway as another was coming in to land. The plane eventually landed safely on its second landing attempt.

watch: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/airport-near-miss-caught-video-111502840.html

Subglacial Volcano Eruption Leads to Aviation Red Alert in Iceland

An aviation red alert was issued by Iceland today after a volcano started to erupt with lava flowing under nearly 400 to 900 feet of ice.

The Iceland police announced that the airspace immediately over the Bardarbunga volcano has been closed and the aviation alert was raised its highest level.

The Bardarbunga volcano started erupting under the Dyngjujokull glacier in Iceland around 10:30 a.m. local time today. The Iceland Met Office said the lava eruption is currently small and has not broken through the glacier.

Martin Hensch, volcano seismologist with the Icelandic Met Office, said small earthquakes have affected the area throughout the day. The largest was around 5.0 on the Richter scale.

While the eruption is relatively small so far, Hensch said there's a chance it could grow and break through part of the glacier, causing a significant steam explosion

"It's completely unpredictable at the moment," Hensch told ABC News.

The unstable eruption has led government officials to evacuate the national park where the volcano is located. Nearby neighborhoods have been alerted that they might have to leave suddenly in the case the eruption melts enough ice that it causes a flood.

"The moment [lava] hits the ice it instantly melts it at high amounts. Then you get glacier outburst flooding and that's the concern regionally," Hensch said.

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PHOTO: Here is a map from the Civil Aviation Authorities (ISAVIA) showing the area defined as danger area closed for instrument flight rules (IFR) due to a potential eruption in northern Vatnajökull glacier.

News of the eruption has also worried aviation officials across the globe. The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in 2010 disrupted European air space for days, because the plume was so thick it was unsafe for planes to fly through it. More than 100,000 flights were canceled as a result of the eruption.

Hensch said scientists do not know if this eruption would create a volcanic plume as large or as disruptive as the one in 2010.

ABC News aviation expert John Nance said that after Eyjafjallajokull's eruption airlines and aviation authorities in Europe created a cooperative network of radar that could allow them to more effectively track volcanic plumes.

"The fact was before it caught everyone by surprise," said Nance. "Since then the European air traffic authority, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland all of them have a cooperative structure and contingency plans for what to do."

With the new radar networks, there's a chance that more airplanes could continue to fly during an eruption, as long as they can avoid the plumes, Nance said.

red alert

Iceland has issued an aviation red alert for the Bardarbunga volcano, meaning significant ash emissions are likely. Airlines fear a repeat of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption which grounded thousands of flights and left millions of passengers stranded