The paper overviews the state-of-art of aircraft powered by hybrid electric propulsion
systems. The research status of the design and energy management of hybrid aircraft and …

High theoretical energy densities of metal battery anode materials have motivated research
in this area for several decades. Aluminum in an Al-air battery (AAB) is attractive due to its …

The present work is a survey on aircraft hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) that aims to present
state-of-the-art technologies and future tendencies in the following areas: air transport …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are very promising and convenient flying devices that can
be used to execute various missions in both civil and military areas. Especially, they have …

Abstract Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with propulsion systems based on fuel
cells have led to increased flight endurance and fuel economy. However, due to the limited …

Turbofan engines are the most widely used propulsion technology in commercial transport
aircraft and are directly involved in many of the environmental impacts of aviation …

New energy sources such as solar energy and hydrogen energy have been applied to the
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which could be formed as the hybrid power sources due to …

The integration of advanced distributed propulsion (DP) systems within various aircraft
configurations holds the potential to greatly increase aircraft performance, particularly in …

With the development of More/All-Electric Aircraft, especially the progress of hybrid electrical
propulsion or electrical propulsion aircraft, the problem of optimizing the energy system …

Aircraft industry is still in the early stages of pure electric propulsion systems development,
the main concern is the significant mass of batteries. As such, hybrid electric systems have …