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Integrating Disruptive Technology at the Aircraft Level
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Integrating Disruptive Technology at the Aircraft Level

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2024 | Viewed by 3215

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Salvatore Corcione

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Assistant Professor of Flight Mechanics at Department of Industrial Engineering; University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli NA, Italy
Interests: aircraft design; flight mechanics; applied aerodynamics; experimental aerodynamics; computational aerodynamics; hybrid-electric aircraft design; design engineering; fluid dynamics; general aviation; multidisciplinary design optimization
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Dr. Vincenzo Cusati

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Assistant Professor of Flight Mechanics at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: aircraft design; wind tunnel tests; CFD; direct operating costs; hybrid-electric aircraft

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for discussing groundbreaking technological initiatives that will enhance the global sustainable competitiveness of the aviation industry.

Climate neutrality will not be the sole objective of this Special Issue (SI). Indeed, it is crucial to consider the cost-effective impact of innovative technology in order to accurately quantify the potential efficiency of the proposed transportation method. Authors are invited to be pragmatic, adopting an approach similar to that of the industry.

This Special Issue, entitled "Integrating Disruptive Technology at the Aircraft Level," will focus on various topics, including innovative concepts, the application of enabling technologies, advanced design approaches, and methods enhanced by machine learning techniques. These technologies include distributed electric propulsion, boundary layer ingestion, sustainable drop-in fuels, smart structures, riblets, coatings, plasma actuators, and other active and passive anti/de-icing systems. The Issue will also cover disruptive configurations, such as forward-swept wing, blended wing body, supersonic commercial flights, and strut-braced wing designs. Additionally, it will explore electric and/or hybrid propulsion systems, hydrogen-powered aircraft, design analysis and optimization, case studies, and datasets.

The Special Issue is open to a full range of article types, and we aim to give authors the freedom to shape it according to their interests and to any relevant research topics.

Dr. Salvatore Corcione
Dr. Vincenzo Cusati
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Aerospace is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • disruptive aircraft design
  • enabling technologies
  • electric propulsion
  • sustainable alternative fuels
  • MDO enhanced by Machine Learning
  • hydrogen-powered aircraft
  • coatings
  • smart structures
  • supersonic commercial flight
  • noise mitigation

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45 pages, 10743 KiB  
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Review of Sonic Boom Prediction and Reduction Methods for Next Generation of Supersonic Aircraft
by Giordana Bonavolontà, Craig Lawson and Atif Riaz
Aerospace 2023, 10(11), 917; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10110917 - 27 Oct 2023
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The reduction of sonic boom levels is the main challenge but also the key factor to start a new era of supersonic commercial flights. Since 1970, a FAA regulation has banned supersonic flights overland for unacceptable sonic booms at the ground, and many [...] Read more.
The reduction of sonic boom levels is the main challenge but also the key factor to start a new era of supersonic commercial flights. Since 1970, a FAA regulation has banned supersonic flights overland for unacceptable sonic booms at the ground, and many research studies have been carried out from that date to understand sonic boom generation, propagation and effects, both on the environment and communities. Minimization techniques have also been developed with the attempt to reduce sonic boom annoyance to acceptable levels. In the last 20 years, the advances in both knowledge and technologies, and companies and institutions’ significant investments have again raised the interest in the development of new methods and tools for the design of low boom supersonic aircraft. The exploration of unconventional configurations and exotic solutions and systems seems to be needed to effectively reduce sonic boom and allow supersonic flight everywhere. This review provides a description of all aspects of the sonic boom phenomenon related to the design of the next generation of supersonic aircraft. In particular, a critical review of the prediction and minimization methods found in the literature, aimed at identifying their strengths, limitations and gaps, is made, along with a complete overview of disruptive unconventional aircraft configurations and exotic active/passive solutions to boom level reduction. The aim of the work is to give a clear statement of state-of-the-art sonic boom prediction methods and possible reduction solutions to be explored for the design of next low-boom supersonic aircraft. Full article
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