Extending the analysis

Extending the analysis#

The scenarios of the extended paper are one instantiation of the framework. Everything that defines them, the market segmentation, the aircraft concepts, the energy production system, and the background scenario ensemble, is declared in the application layer (noads.application.base_objects and noads.application.scenario_setup) and can be changed without touching the core models. This section shows where to plug in new analyses:

Partitioning the fleet

Change the market segmentation: distance bands, seats, ranges, shares of supply, and fleet lifetimes.

Partitioning the fleet differently
Adding an aircraft concept

Introduce a new propulsion architecture, such as a liquid-methane gas turbine, and let the optimizer decide its deployment.

Adding an aircraft concept
Energy pathways and resources

Add production pathways or primary energy sources, such as geological hydrogen, to the energy mix.

Energy pathways and resources
Uncertainty quantification

Sweep technology scenarios, sample uncertain parameters, and exploit the JAX speedups for ensemble studies.

Uncertainty quantification