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Omkar Walvekar and Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy
A conceptual framework is presented to determine the improvement in the aerodynamic performance of a canard aircraft fitted with distributed propellers along its main wing. A preliminary study is described with four airframe?propeller configurations pred...
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Zhiping Li, Yujiang Lu and Tianyu Pan
DPS (distributed propulsion system) utilizing BLI (boundary-layer ingestion) has shown great potential for reducing the power consumption of sustainable AAM (advanced air mobility), such as BWB (blended-wing body) aircraft. However, the ingesting boundar...
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Vincenzo Cusati, Salvatore Corcione, Fabrizio Nicolosi and Qinyin Zhang
The need for environmentally responsible solutions in aircraft technology is now considered the priority for global challenges related to the limited supply of traditional fuel sources and the potential global hazards associated with emissions produced b...
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Oreste Russo, Andrea Aprovitola, Donato de Rosa, Giuseppe Pezzella and Antonio Viviani
The efficiency increase that distributed propulsion could deliver for future hybrid-electric aircraft is in line with the urgent demand for higher aerodynamic performances and a lower environmental impact. Several consolidated proprietary tools (not alwa...
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Valerio Marciello, Mario Di Stasio, Manuela Ruocco, Vittorio Trifari, Fabrizio Nicolosi, Markus Meindl, Bruno Lemoine and Priscilla Caliandro
The environmental impact of aviation in terms of noise and pollutant emissions has gained public attention in the last few years. In addition, the foreseen financial benefits of an increased energy efficiency have motivated the transport industry to inve...
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Darwin Jimenez, Esteban Valencia, Ariel Herrera, Edgar Cando and Marcelo Pozo
Current environmental policies for the aviation sector motivate the use of cleaner propulsion alternatives in order to reduce their CO2 footprint and noise pollution in the coming years. In this context, hybrid propulsion systems have emerged as a potent...
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Wenyuan Zhao, Yanlai Zhang, Peng Tang and Jianghao Wu
Motivated by outstanding aerodynamic performance and limited emissions, the blend-wing-body (BWB) aircraft equipped with a distributed propulsion (DP) system has become a possible layout for civil aircraft in the next generation. Due to the strong aero-p...
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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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Pavel Hospodár, Jan Klesa, Daniel Demovic and Nikola ?i?kovský
In this paper, an aerodynamic and structural computation framework was produced to develop a more efficient aircraft configuration considering a wing with a distributed electric propulsion and its use in different flight missions. For that reason, a mode...
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Kelei Wang and Zhou Zhou
This paper describes the aerodynamic design and assessment of a blended-wing?body (BWB) configuration under the distributed electric propulsion (DEP) installation constraints. The aerodynamic design rationale and process is described, as well as how the ...
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Raquel Alonso Castilla, Florent Lutz, Joël Jézégou and Emmanuel Bénard
In the context of reducing the environmental footprint of tomorrow?s aviation, Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) has become an increasingly interesting concept. With the strong coupling between disciplines that this technology brings forth, multiple ...
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Jiahao Guo and Zhou Zhou
The distributed propulsion system applied to the vertical take-off and landing aircraft must maintain the high performance in both hover and cruise flight. The gap of the power unit has an adverse effect on the distributed ducted fan system, especially i...
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Donato de Rosa, Elisa Morales Tirado and Giuseppe Mingione
With the mandatory requirement for more efficient aircraft due to both economic and environmental purposes, academy and industry are exploring new aircraft design opportunities including the concepts of hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles. Within...
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Ladislav Illes, Martin Jurkovic, Tomas Kalina, Jarmila Sosedova, Piotr Gorzelanczyk, Ondrej Stopka and Tibor Kubjatko
Limited navigation depth, especially on inland waterways, is one of the main limiting factors that shorten the navigation period. Distributed propulsion systems represent an opportunity to increase the navigability of ships across critical sections of wa...
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Mohammadreza Amoozgar, Michael I. Friswell, Seyed Ahmad Fazelzadeh, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast, Abbas Mazidi and Jonathan E. Cooper
In this paper, the effect of distributed electric propulsion on the aeroelastic stability of an electric aircraft wing was investigated. All the electric propulsors, which are of different properties, are attached to the wing of the aircraft in different...
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Ladislav Illes, Tomas Kalina, Martin Jurkovic and Vladimir Luptak
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of distributed propulsion systems used on inland and coastal navigation in shallow water. Five layouts were assessed by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The hull/propulsion layout cases ha...
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Smruti Sahoo, Xin Zhao and Konstantinos Kyprianidis
Electrification of the propulsion system has opened the door to a new paradigm of propulsion system configurations and novel aircraft designs, which was never envisioned before. Despite lofty promises, the concept must overcome the design and sizing chal...
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Danilo Ciliberti, Pierluigi Della Vecchia, Vincenzo Orticalco and Fabrizio Nicolosi
The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of the aero-propulsive effects on a UAV wing model with distributed propulsion. An array of three propellers is placed ahead of the leading edge of a rectangular wing with flap. The investigation was performed ...
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Dominique Paul Bergmann, Jan Denzel, Ole Pfeifle, Stefan Notter, Walter Fichter and Andreas Strohmayer
The high-power density and good scaling properties of electric motors enable new propulsion arrangements and aircraft configurations. This results in distributed propulsion systems allowing to make use of aerodynamic interaction effects between individua...
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Kathiravan Thangavel, Pablo Servidia, Roberto Sabatini, Pier Marzocca, Haytham Fayek, Santiago Husain Cerruti, Martin España and Dario Spiller
Space-based Earth Observation (EO) systems have undergone a continuous evolution in the twenty-first century. With the help of space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), specially Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), their applicability across the w...
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