GE Aerospace Completes Design Studies of Hypersonic Ramjet with Generative AI | aviationbizz.com
Signaling the dawn of a new era in commercial and military jet engine design, a team of top AI researchers at the GE Aerospace Research Center in Upstate New York successfully demonstrated a new generative AI-powered app that produced a preliminary design layout for a hypersonic ramjet engine in mere seconds, satisfying all requirements.
Why it matters: With the U.S. Department of Defense prioritizing the speed of new developments and the commercial aviation industry’s focus on meeting air travel demand, the pace of innovation is quickening. New developments in generative AI are advancing at a rate no other technology has ever experienced. With the acceleration of new developments, GE Aerospace is working to keep pace by placing new tools and capabilities in the hands of engineers today to meet this demand now.
Joe Vinciquerra, General Manager and Senior Executive Director, GE Aerospace Research, says, “By using generative AI tools we can significantly reduce design cycle times, enabling us to be faster to test and ultimately faster to commercialize the best, most proven end product.”
Vinciquerra continued, “The engineering design studies of a hypersonic ramjet using generative AI is a tremendous proof point that shows AI’s potential to revolutionize the design process.”
Vinciquerra noted that GE Aerospace researchers are also expanding the application of their innovative generative AI design app to accelerate commercial jet engine technologies through the CFM International RISE* program. The RISE program is advancing a suite of technologies like open fan architecture for next generation narrowbody engines.
Generative AI designed Hypersonic Dual Mode Ramjet
As part of the hypersonic ramjet design proof of concept, GE Aerospace researchers were able to simultaneously account for multiple flight conditions and scenarios that a customer would typically outline to inform their design. Using GE Aerospace’s generative AI app allows engineers to reduce this early design study work from weeks and months to seconds in a day to arrive at a similar result.
“GE Aerospace is all-in on AI,” Vinciquerra concluded. “The use of generative AI to design a hypersonic speed ramjet is a great example of how we are bringing together AI science with decades of embedded know-how to shape the future of commercial and military jet engine technologies.”
* Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) is a technology demonstration program of CFM International, a 50-50 joint company between GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines. It is not a product offered for commercial sale.
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