Aircraft designs continue to become more complex as electronics, mechanics, and hydraulics merge to provide more precision and efficiency. Design tools help ensure that these complicated designs get to market on time with a minimum of faults, leveraging parallel computing to simulate larger sections of a plane.rnSoftware developers are improving the connections between the many tools used to design the complex systems that make up an aircraft. These improved communications play a critical role during the simulation phase when systems or even an entire plane are run through a battery of virtual tests.rnFor simulations to further reduce the number of physical prototypes builds, these tools need to duplicate the many things that can happen during a planes lengthy lifetime as it operates in a huge range of conditions. By running more simulations of large sections of a plane, engineers ensure that prototype flights can be used to wring out difficult problems, not find simple ones.
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