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Oscar Ulises Espinosa Barcenas, Jose Gabriel Quijada Pioquinto, Ekaterina Kurkina and Oleg Lukyanov
The aircraft conceptual design step requires a substantial number of aerodynamic configuration evaluations. Since the wing is the main aircraft lifting element, the focus is on solving direct and reverse design problems. The former could be solved using ...
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Jesus Rosales, Addison Miller, Edgar Nunez, Andreas Gross and Nancy Chanover
The conceptual design of a hybrid aerial vehicle for the exploration of the upper Venus atmosphere is presented. The vehicle will float like a balloon and harvest solar energy which is stored in batteries. The neutral buoyancy reduces the energy consumpt...
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Apostolos Spanelis and Alastair Duncan Walker
Fluid off-takes and complex delivery ducts are common in many engineering systems but designing them can be a challenging task. At the conceptual design phase many system parameters are open to consideration and preliminary design studies are necessary t...
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Pietro Roncioni, Marco Marini, Oscar Gori, Roberta Fusaro and Nicole Viola
The request for faster and greener civil aviation is urging the worldwide scientific community and aerospace industry to develop a new generation of supersonic aircraft, which are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to guarantee a high-level p...
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Arne Seitz, Anaïs Luisa Habermann, Fabian Peter, Florian Troeltsch, Alejandro Castillo Pardo, Biagio Della Corte, Martijn van Sluis, Zdobyslaw Goraj, Mariusz Kowalski, Xin Zhao, Tomas Grönstedt, Julian Bijewitz and Guido Wortmann
Key results from the EU H2020 project CENTRELINE are presented. The research activities undertaken to demonstrate the proof of concept (technology readiness level?TRL 3) for the so-called propulsive fuselage concept (PFC) for fuselage wake-filling propul...
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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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Yalin Dai, Zhouwei Fan, Jian Xu, You He and Xiongqing Yu
A special feature of airbreathing hypersonic aircraft is the complex coupling between aerodynamic and propulsive performances. This study presents a rapid analysis methodology for the integration of these two critical aspects in the conceptual design of ...
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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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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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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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Francesco Toffol and Sergio Ricci
This paper presents a preliminary study on the improvement of the fuel efficiency of a civil transport aircraft, focusing on the aero-elastic optimization of an increased aspect ratio wingbox. The wing is stretched, increasing its aspect ratio, and a tra...
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Siwat Suewatanakul, Alessandro Porcarelli, Adam Olsson, Henrik Grimler, Ariel Chiche, Raffaello Mariani and Göran Lindbergh
The manuscript presents the conceptual design phase of an unmanned aerial vehicle, with the objective of a systems approach towards the integration of a hydrogen fuel-cell system and Li-ion batteries into an aerodynamically efficient platform representat...
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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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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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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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Nicolas Moebs, Dominik Eisenhut, Evert Windels, Jenny van der Pols and Andreas Strohmayer
In the wake of many climate-friendly initiatives, the aviation sector must become more sustainable. A potential path for regional airliners could be the installation of hybrid-electric powertrains. In this work, a conceptual study design of various power...
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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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Konstantin Bantscheff and Christian Breitsamter
Considering aeroelastic effects plays a vital role in the aircraft design process. The construction of elastic wind tunnel models is a critical element in the investigation of occurring aeroelastic phenomena. However, the structural scaling between full-...
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Davide Ferretto, Oscar Gori, Roberta Fusaro and Nicole Viola
Recent studies have revealed that control surface deflection can cause a reduction in the aerodynamic efficiency of a hypersonic aircraft of up to 30%. In fact, the characterization of the Flight Control System is essential for the estimation of the cons...
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Spyridon Kilimtzidis and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The race towards cleaner and more efficient commercial aviation demands novel designs featuring improved aerodynamic and structural characteristics, the main pillars that drive aircraft efficiency. Among the many proposed and introduced, the increase in ...
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