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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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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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Judith Rosenow, Thomas Sachwitz, Shumpei Kamo, Gong Chen and Hartmut Fricke
The increasing influence of current research in air traffic management on daily flight operations leads to a stronger consideration of individually optimized aircraft trajectories. However, in the dichotomy between ecological, economic, and safety-based ...
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Carlo E. D. Riboldi, Stefano Cacciola and Lorenzo Ceffa
In the quest for making aircraft more energy-efficient, configuration, and primarily the arrangement and quality of aerodynamic surfaces, play a relevant role. In a previous comparative study by the authors, it was shown how to obtain a significant incre...
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Arjit Seth and Rhea P. Liem
Amphibious aircraft designers face challenges to improve takeoffs and landings on both water and land, with water-takeoffs being relatively more complex for analyses. Reducing the water-takeoff distance via the use of hydrofoils was a subject of interest...
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Gottfried Sachs and Benedikt Grüter
Dynamic soaring is a non-powered flight mode that enables extremely high speeds by extracting energy from thin shear wind layers. Trajectory optimization is applied to construct solutions of the maximum speed achievable with dynamic soaring and to determ...
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Imran Shafi, Muhammad Fawad Mazhar, Anum Fatima, Roberto Marcelo Alvarez, Yini Miró, Julio César Martínez Espinosa and Imran Ashraf
Monitoring tool conditions and sub-assemblies before final integration is essential to reducing processing failures and improving production quality for manufacturing setups. This research study proposes a real-time deep learning-based framework for iden...
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Ilias Lappas and Akira Ikenaga
An increasing number of aircraft is equipped with wing tip devices, which either are installed by the aircraft manufacturer at the production line or are retrofitted after the delivery of the aircraft to its operator. The installation of wing tip devices...
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Nicolas P. Bons and Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) has been previously applied to aerostructural wing design problems with great success. Most previous applications involve fine-tuning a well-designed aircraft wing. In this work, we broaden the scope of the opt...
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Alexios Alexiou, Nikolaos Aretakis, Ioannis Kolias and Konstantinos Mathioudakis
This paper presents a modular, flexible, extendable and fast-computational framework that implements a multidisciplinary, varying fidelity, multi-system approach for the conceptual and preliminary design of novel aero-engines. In its current status, the ...
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Ke Li, Yansen Wu, Abu Bakar, Shaofan Wang, Yuangan Li and Dongsheng Wen
The accurate calculation of energy system parameters makes a great contribution to the long-term low-altitude flight of solar-powered aircraft. The purpose of this paper is to propose a design method for optimization and management of the low-altitude an...
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Junzi Sun
Trajectory optimization has been an active area of research for air transport studies for several decades. But almost all flight optimizers proposed in the literature remain close-sourced, which presents a major disadvantage for the advancement of scient...
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Yi Zhang, Tao Li, Yanning Li and Gen Wang
In the human-in-loop (HIL) guidance mode, a pilot quickly identifies and flexibly locks on to a target through a real-time image signal transmitted by the aircraft. Then, the line-of-sight (LOS) angle error in the viewing field is tracked and compensated...
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Dongwen Xue, Qun Yan, Zhuohan Li and Kai Wei
In this paper, a multidisciplinary optimization design method and its verification of low-noise aircraft propellers considering aerodynamics, noise, and structural strength were carried out to further reduce the aerodynamic noise of the aircraft propelle...
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Tielin Ma, Xiangsheng Wang, Nanxuan Qiao, Zilun Zhang, Jingcheng Fu and Mingmin Bao
The distributed electric propulsion (DEP) eVTOL aircraft has gained rising interest for its promising potential in high-speed cruise compared with conventional tilt-rotor configuration. The aerodynamic interference of the DEP units and wing could become ...
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Weihua Li, Yongxi Lyu, Sifan Dai, Huakun Chen, Jingping Shi and Yongfeng Li
With recent advances in airborne weapons, air combat tends to occur in the form of beyond-visual-range (BVR) combat and multi-aircraft cooperation. Target assignment is critical in multi-aircraft BVR air combat decision-making. Most previous research on ...
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Stefan Biser, Guido Wortmann, Swen Ruppert, Mykhaylo Filipenko, Mathias Noe and Martin Boll
Electric propulsion (EP) systems offer considerably more degrees of freedom (DOFs) within the design process of aircraft compared to conventional aircraft engines. This requires large, computationally expensive design space explorations (DSE) with couple...
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Touraj Farsadi, Majid Ahmadi, Melin Sahin, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast, Altan Kayran and Michael I. Friswell
In the field of aerospace engineering, the design and manufacturing of high aspect ratio composite wings has become a focal point of innovation and efficiency. These long, slender wings, constructed with advanced materials such as carbon fiber and employ...
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Cong Wang, Liyue Wang, Chen Cao, Gang Sun, Yufeng Huang and Sili Zhou
As a core component of an aero-engine, the aerodynamic performance of the nacelle is essential for the overall performance of an aircraft. However, the direct design of a three-dimensional (3D) nacelle is limited by the complex design space consisting of...
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Haoying Chen, Yifan Wang and Haibo Zhang
In the overall design process of the turbofan engine, it has become crucial to address the challenge of selecting design parameters that not only meet the flight thrust demand but also enhance engine economy. As the demand for stealth performance in futu...
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