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An important part of future air vehicle design will be the development of a transient integrated aircraft system model. DC electric power system modeling poses particular challenges because they are highly dynamic and employ short time constant line replaceable units [1, 2, 3]. This paper describes an approach to modeling an aircraft's electric power system that uses simplified non-physics based models of the line replaceable units that are part of future 270VDC aircraft power systems. The model is an alternative to physics based models and is particularly useful for the initial phases of aircraft development before hardware development has occurred. A 270VDC aircraft power system model is constructed as an example using the unit models. Selected results will be presented.

There is a continuing need to simulate power electronic circuits that include magnetic components. It is necessary to determine the interaction of the magnetic component with the rest of the power electronic system so that a dynamic circuit model of the magnetic components including material saturation and iron losses is required. Also, the magnetic component model must be valid when the magnetic component's excitation is not sinusoidal. A dynamic magnetic circuit model derived from Maxwell's equations along with useful theorems for building circuit models from the structure of the magnetic device is reviewed. The developed circuit models are general including magnetic saturation and iron losses. Simulation results for a DC/DC converter employing a conventional gapped inductor and a gapped coupled inductor are presented.