OpenAP

An Open Model for Aircraft Performance and Emissions

The philosophy behind OpenAP is simple: open-source aircraft performance model, built with open data, for open air transport research.

Currently, it supports around 35 most common aircraft types and an additional 23 aircraft types through synonyms.

OpenAP is a project actively maintained by Dr. Junzi Sun. He is a researcher at TU Delft, whose research, among others, includes aircraft performance and emission modeling. This project is a continuation of his PhD work on aircraft performance modeling using open data (2015-2019). Fun fact: the work of OpenAP earned him the Young Scientist Award by SESAR JU in 2019.

Since 2019, there are major developments of the OpenAP tool:

1. aircraft emission models (integrated in openap package)
2. trajectory optimization and generation (with additional junzis/openap-top package)
3. reduced-order models for fast fuel estimation (with additional junzis/openap-polymer package)

You can find more about Junzi's research on his website, and feel free to get in contact with him regarding OpenAP or other related topics.

The source code and data of OpenAP can be found on GitHub: junzis/openap.