Electric, hybrid, and turboelectric fixed-wing aircraft: A review of concepts, models, and design approaches

BJ Brelje, JRRA Martins - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Following high-profile government and industry studies, electric aircraft propulsion has
emerged as an important research topic. This article surveys the scholarly and business …

Effective adjoint approaches for computational fluid dynamics

GKW Kenway, CA Mader, P He… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2019 - Elsevier
The adjoint method is used for high-fidelity aerodynamic shape optimization and is an
efficient approach for computing the derivatives of a function of interest with respect to a …

A Python surrogate modeling framework with derivatives

MA Bouhlel, JT Hwang, N Bartoli, R Lafage… - … in Engineering Software, 2019 - Elsevier
The surrogate modeling toolbox (SMT) is an open-source Python package that contains a
collection of surrogate modeling methods, sampling techniques, and benchmarking …

A graph-based methodology for constructing computational models that automates adjoint-based sensitivity analysis

V Gandarillas, AJ Joshy, MZ Sperry, AK Ivanov… - Structural and …, 2024 - Springer
The adjoint method provides an efficient way to compute sensitivities for system models with
a large number of inputs. However, implementing the adjoint method requires significant …

OpenMDAO: An open-source framework for multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization

JS Gray, JT Hwang, JRRA Martins, KT Moore… - Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is concerned with solving design problems
involving coupled numerical models of complex engineering systems. While various MDO …

Tilt-wing eVTOL takeoff trajectory optimization

SS Chauhan, JRRA Martins - Journal of aircraft, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Technological advances in areas such as battery technology, autonomous control, and ride-
hailing services, combined with the scale-free nature of electric motors, have sparked …

A computational architecture for coupling heterogeneous numerical models and computing coupled derivatives

JT Hwang, JRRA Martins - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
One of the challenges in computational modeling is coupling models to solve
multidisciplinary problems. Flow-based computational frameworks alleviate part of the …

Large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization of an evtol aircraft using comprehensive analysis

D Sarojini, ML Ruh, AJ Joshy, J Yan, AK Ivanov… - AIAA SciTech 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0146. vid This paper presents a
framework under development for enabling large-scale multi-fidelity modeling and …

Simultaneous wing shape and actuator parameter optimization using the adjoint method

HU Koyuncuoglu, P He - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing attention to urban air mobility with distributed electric propulsion causes an
increased interest in propeller aircraft design and optimization. Various studies have …

Multidisciplinary design optimization framework with coupled derivative computation for hybrid aircraft

A Sgueglia, P Schmollgruber, N Bartoli, E Benard… - Journal of Aircraft, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Hybrid-electric aircraft are a potential way to reduce the environmental footprint of aviation.
Research aimed at this subject has been pursued over the last decade; nevertheless, at this …