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 …

Design, aerodynamic analysis and optimization of a next-generation commercial airliner

PD Bravo-Mosquera, HD Cerón-Muñoz… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2022 - Springer
Unconventional configurations and innovative propulsion technologies have been
continuously developed for reducing both fuel-burn and global net carbon emissions. This …

The MPU RX-4 project: Design, electronics, and software development of a geofence protection system for a fixed-wing vtol uav

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Taitzoglou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are at the forefront of this century's technological shift,
becoming ubiquitous in research and market areas. However, as a UAV navigates …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual design of a novel unmanned ground effect vehicle (ugev) and flow control integration study

C Papadopoulos, D Mitridis, K Yakinthos - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Influence of tubercles' spanwise distribution on swept wings for unmanned aerial vehicles

C Papadopoulos, V Katsiadramis… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this work, a 3D numerical study on the influence of the spanwise distribution of tubercles
on a unmanned aerial vehicle wing is presented. The idea of using tubercles in aeronautics …

Design and aerodynamic evaluation of a medium short takeoff and landing tactical transport aircraft

PD Bravo-Mosquera, JJ Vaca-Rios… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The present article deals with the conceptual design of a new medium short takeoff and
landing tactical transport aircraft, which is intended to expand the institutional capabilities of …

Methodologies for designing, optimizing, and evaluating possible unconventional aircraft configurations for future civil aviation

PD Bravo Mosquera - 2022 - teses.usp.br
Due to technological evolution and the development of several environmental aerospace
projects, the aeronautical community has been implementing advanced design strategies …

[HTML][HTML] Flow Structures and Aerodynamic Behavior of a Small-Scale Joined-Wing Aerial Vehicle under Subsonic Conditions

TH New, ZW Teo, S Li, ZA Ong, B Nagel - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
Flow behavior and aerodynamic performance of a small-scale joined-wing unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) was studied experimentally and numerically under various pitch and yaw …

Low-order Aeroelastic Modelling of a High Aspect Ratio Wing Aircraft Under Constrained Motion

A Pontillo, PD Banneheka Navaratna… - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1306. vid The work presented in
this paper describes the modelling of a low-order aeroelastic solver, built with the aim of …

Design and computational analysis of a closed non-planar wing aircraft coupled to a boundary layer ingestion propulsion system

PD Bravo Mosquera, HD Cerón-Muñoz… - AIAA Propulsion and …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
The air transport sector is one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (currently around 130 …