Strategies towards a more sustainable aviation: A systematic review

F Afonso, M Sohst, CMA Diogo, SS Rodrigues… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2023 - Elsevier
As climate change is exacerbated and existing resources are depleted, the need for
sustainable industries becomes ever so important. Aviation is not an exception. Despite the …

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 distributed electric propulsion technologies—a review

MT Fard, JB He, H Huang, Y Cao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Global transportation has shifted toward electromobility to achieve net-zero emission, and in
the next few decades, commercial electric aircraft is likely to become a reality. This transition …

A conceptual design methodology for e-VTOL aircraft for urban air mobility

G Palaia, K Abu Salem, V Cipolla, V Binante… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent progress of electric systems has raised attention towards hybrid-electric and full-
electric aircraft. Nevertheless, the current low battery energy density limits the application of …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable aircraft design—A review on optimization methods for electric propulsion with derived optimal number of propulsors

PF Pelz, P Leise, M Meck - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The high environmental impact of conventional aircraft can be considerably reduced using
hybrid-or fully-electrical propulsion systems with distributed propulsors. It results in an …

Generic design methodology for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion

D Lee, D Lim, K Yee - Journal of Aircraft, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper proposes a conceptual methodology for designing vertical takeoff and landing
aircraft with a hybrid-electric propulsion system as an alternative to facilitate intercity …