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Mohsen Rostami, Julian Bardin, Daniel Neufeld and Joon Chung
In considering aircraft design, it is very important to effectively size the tail configuration for stability and control. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) focuses on the use of numerical optimization in the design of systems with multiple sub...
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Stanislav Karpuk, Yiyuan Ma and Ali Elham
Present work investigates the potential of a long-range commercial blended wing body configuration powered by hydrogen combustion engines with future airframe and propulsion technologies. Future technologies include advanced materials, load alleviation t...
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Vijesh Mohan, Andrew K. Jeyaraj and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
System integration is one of the key challenges to bringing future hybrid-electric and all-electric aircraft into the market. In addition, retrofitting and redesigning existing aircraft are potential paths toward achieving hybrid and all-electric flight,...
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Ege Cagri Altunkaya and Ibrahim Ozkol
The stick-free flight stability is an old-fashioned and non-progressive issue; nevertheless, it is still existent and of significant importance to the design of aircraft whose control system is reversible. The existence of the problem necessitates a deep...
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Thomas Planès, Scott Delbecq, Valérie Pommier-Budinger and Emmanuel Bénard
The aircraft environmental control system (ECS) is the second-highest fuel consumer system, behind the propulsion system. To reduce fuel consumption, one research direction intends to replace conventional aircraft with more electric aircraft. Thus, new e...
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Stanislav Karpuk, Rolf Radespiel and Ali Elham
The present work demonstrates the impact of future airframe and propulsion technologies on the sustainability of potential future medium-range commercial jets with design specifications similar to the Airbus A320-200. Advanced airframe and engine technol...
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Stanislav Karpuk and Ali Elham
The feasibility of regional electric aviation to reduce environmental impact highly depends on technological advancements of energy storage techniques, available battery energy density, and high-power electric motor technologies. However, novel airframe ...
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Julian Hoelzen, Yaolong Liu, Boris Bensmann, Christopher Winnefeld, Ali Elham, Jens Friedrichs and Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach
Ambitious targets to reduce emissions caused by aviation in the light of an expected ongoing rise of the air transport demand in the future drive the research of propulsion systems with lower CO2 emissions. Regional hybrid electric aircraft (HEA) powered...
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Saeed Hosseini, Mohammad Ali Vaziry-Zanjany and Hamid Reza Ovesy
In this research, the architecture and the functionalities of the LAMBDA (Laboratory of Aircraft Multidisciplinary Knowledge-Based Design and Analysis) framework for the design, analysis, and optimization of civil aircraft are presented. The framework is...
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Rejish Jesudasan, Ardeshir Hanifi and Raffaello Mariani
Wing-in-Ground (WIG) effect aircraft are gaining attention for their potential in reducing environmental impact. However, optimising wing planforms based solely on aerodynamics might improve performance while compromising static height stability of WIG a...
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Mohsen Rostami, Julian Bardin, Daniel Neufeld and Joon Chung
Recent development in Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft makes it a popular design approach for urban air mobility (UAM). When designing these configurations, due to the uncertainty present in semi-empirical estimations, often used f...
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Max Friedrich, Dale Richards and Mark Vollrath
(1) Background: The transition from conventional to remote aircraft control will necessitate the development of novel human machine interfaces. When we consider the pilot interface, icons are traditionally used to associate meanings with functions on the...
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Marco Fioriti, Pierluigi Della Vecchia and Giuseppa Donelli
The on-board design discipline is sometimes ignored during the first aircraft design iterations. It might be understandable when a single on-board system architecture is considered, especially when a conventional architecture is selected. However, seeing...
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Andrea Spinelli, Hossein Balaghi Enalou, Bahareh Zaghari, Timoleon Kipouros and Panagiotis Laskaridis
The energy management strategy of a hybrid-electric aircraft is coupled with the design of the propulsion system itself. A new design space exploration methodology based on Set-Based Design is introduced to analyse the effects of different strategies on ...
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Andrew K. Jeyaraj and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
To reduce the environmental impact of aviation, aircraft manufacturers develop novel aircraft configurations and investigate advanced systems technologies. These new technologies are complex and characterized by electrical or hybrid-electric propulsion s...
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Pierluigi Della Vecchia, Massimo Mandorino, Vincenzo Cusati and Fabrizio Nicolosi
Aircraft retrofitting is a challenging task involving multiple scenarios and stakeholders. Providing a strategy to retrofit an existing platform needs detailed knowledge of multiple aspects, ranging from aircraft performance and emissions, development an...
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Victor Alulema, Esteban Valencia, Edgar Cando, Victor Hidalgo and Dario Rodriguez
Despite the increasing demand of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for a wide range of civil applications, there are few methodologies for their initial sizing. Nowadays, classical methods, mainly developed for transport aircraft, have been adapted to UAVs...
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John P. Jasa, Benjamin J. Brelje, Justin S. Gray, Charles A. Mader and Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Aircraft are multidisciplinary systems that are challenging to design due to interactions between the subsystems. The relevant disciplines, such as aerodynamic, thermal, and propulsion systems, must be considered simultaneously using a path-dependent for...
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Stanislav Karpuk, Yaolong Liu and Ali Elham
The German Cluster of Excellence SE²A (Sustainable and Energy Efficient Aviation) is established in order to investigate the influence of game-changing technologies on the energy efficiency of future transport aircraft. In this paper, the preliminary inv...
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Alessandro Bacchini and Enrico Cestino
In the last ten years, different concepts of electric vertical take-off and landing aircrafts (eVTOLs) have been tested. This article addresses the problem of the choice of the best configuration. VTOLs built since the fifties are presented and their adv...
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