Review of hybrid-electric aircraft technologies and designs: Critical analysis and novel solutions

KA Salem, G Palaia, AA Quarta - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become a priority for civil transport aviation. One
of the possible solutions investigated by current aeronautics research is the introduction of …

Unconventional aircraft for civil aviation: A review of concepts and design methodologies

PD Bravo-Mosquera, FM Catalano, DW Zingg - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the environmental impacts of aviation have become a key challenge for
the aeronautical community. Advanced and well-established technologies such as active …

A review of concepts, benefits, and challenges for future electrical propulsion-based aircraft

S Sahoo, X Zhao, K Kyprianidis - Aerospace, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Aircraft hybrid-electric propulsion: Development trends, challenges and opportunities

MA Rendón, CD Sánchez R, J Gallo M… - Journal of Control …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamic interaction between propellers of a distributed-propulsion system in forward flight

R de Vries, N van Arnhem, T Sinnige, R Vos… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article describes an experimental investigation of the aerodynamic interaction that
occurs between distributed propellers in forward flight. To this end, three propellers were …

Influence of novel airframe technologies on the feasibility of fully-electric regional aviation

S Karpuk, A Elham - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
The feasibility of regional electric aviation to reduce environmental impact highly depends
on technological advancements of energy storage techniques, available battery energy …

[HTML][HTML] An energy systems model of large commercial liquid hydrogen aircraft in a low-carbon future

JR Smith, E Mastorakos - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid hydrogen (LH2) aircraft have the potential to achieve carbon neutrality. However, if
the hydrogen is produced using electricity grids that utilise fossil fuel, they have a non-zero …

Sizing and analysis of a lift-plus-cruise aircraft with electrified propulsion

I Chakraborty, AA Mishra - Journal of Aircraft, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper demonstrates an integrated approach to the sizing and analysis of all-electric,
hybrid-electric, and turboelectric variants of a lift-plus-cruise urban air mobility vertical takeoff …

[HTML][HTML] Refined air-cooled battery sizing process for conceptual design of eVTOL aircraft

J Park, T Jeong, K Yee - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Recently, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft have garnered significant
interest as a primary mode of transportation in advanced air mobility (AAM). For the …

Mission performance analysis of hybrid-electric regional aircraft

G Palaia, K Abu Salem - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article discusses the mission performance of regional aircraft with hybrid-electric
propulsion. The performance analyses are provided by mission simulations tools specifically …