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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia and Alessandro Antonio Quarta
The combination of new airframes with electric and hybrid-electric propulsion is a potential solution to decarbonize aviation. In this context, recent studies have proven that the box-wing airframe, if integrated on a hybrid-electric aircraft belonging t...
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Giuseppe Palaia, Karim Abu Salem and Alessandro A. Quarta
The continuously expanding transport aviation sector has a significant impact on climate change, and measures must be taken to limit its environmental impact. The study of advanced airframes, which may increase the lift-to-drag ratio and structural effic...
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Pedro D. Bravo-Mosquera, Hernán D. Cerón-Muñoz and Fernando M. Catalano
The aerodynamic design of a new aircraft concept was investigated through subsonic wind-tunnel testing using 1:28-scale powered models. The aircraft configuration integrates a box-wing layout with engines located at the rear part of the fuselage. Measure...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia, Mario R. Chiarelli and Mario Bianchi
The development of novel aircraft concepts and propulsion technologies requires up-to-date physics-based methods and tools for conceptual aircraft design. In this context, a simulation model for the take-off manoeuvre is proposed in this article, to be e...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia, Alessandro A. Quarta and Mario R. Chiarelli
This paper presents a study on the aeromechanical characteristics of a box-wing aircraft configuration with a focus on stability, controllability, and the impact of aeromechanical constraints on the lifting system conceptual design. In the last decade, t...
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Charalampos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Mitridis and Kyros Yakinthos
In this study, the conceptual design of an unmanned ground effect vehicle (UGEV), based on in-house analytical tools and CFD calculations, followed by flow control studies, is presented. Ground effect vehicles can operate, in a more efficient way, over c...
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Karim Abu Salem, Vittorio Cipolla, Giuseppe Palaia, Vincenzo Binante and Davide Zanetti
The introduction of disruptive innovations in the transport aviation sector is becoming increasingly necessary. This is because there are many very demanding challenges that the transport aviation system will have to face in the years ahead. In particula...
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Sam de Wringer, Carmine Varriale and Fabrizio Oliviero
A unified approach to aircraft mission performance assessment is presented in this work. It provides a detailed and flexible formulation to simulate a complete commercial aviation mission. Based on optimal control theory, with consistent injection of rul...
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