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Fig. 1.29 3D-TestBench use case decomposition

point for all the selected three domain disciplines involved in the airplane wing
design, thus supported with an appropriate software tools, and the following cat-
egory of software tools/components have been selected:

1. CAD for geometry modeling
2. CFD for fluid flow simulations
3. FEM for strength computations
4. Wire harness design
5. Workflow manager for the design process management
6. Visualization for the solutions inspection and design process monitoring

It is important to mention that the change in the wing geometry affects the
simulated results for the three selected engineering domains, thus affecting the
design process, which requires an iterative path by the continuous supervision of
the designer (in this case is a group of experts) covering the validation process in
each of the involved discipline (structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, and wire
harness), which needs to be repeated, commonly within several iterative steps
before acceptable solution can be found. This process and all the supporting
software tools and hardware need to constitute an integrated solution, which will
be the 3D-Testbench software environment (Figs. 1.29 and 1.30 ).
3D-TestBench software solution, see Fig. 1.31 , will enable the stakeholders to
be present in the M&S design process of such complex systems, to be naturally