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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements and prospects of boundary layer ingestion propulsion concepts

NGM Moirou, DS Sanders, P Laskaridis - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The aviation sector is experiencing an increasing pressure to reduce emissions via long-
term strategies for a ceaselessly growing number of flight passengers. Aircraft currently in …

MPhys: a modular multiphysics library for coupled simulation and adjoint derivative computation

A Yildirim, KE Jacobson, JL Anibal, BK Stanford… - Structural and …, 2025 - Springer
The design of many engineering systems requires multiphysics simulations and can benefit
from design optimization. Two key challenges in multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) …

Recent advances in boundary layer ingestion technology of evolving powertrain systems

DE Diamantidou, ML Hosain, KG Kyprianidis - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasing environmental concern during the last years is driving the research
community towards reducing aviation's environmental impact. Several strict goals set by …

[HTML][HTML] On the aeroacoustics of turbulent boundary layer ingesting propellers

I Zaman, M Falsi, B Zang, M Azarpeyvand, S Meloni - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The present work experimentally examines the aeroacoustic characteristics of a propeller
ingesting various planar turbulent boundary layers. The experimental setup consists of a two …

Towards passive aeroelastic tailoring of large wind turbines using high-fidelity multidisciplinary design optimization

M Mangano, S He, Y Liao, DG Caprace… - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1289. vid The decarbonization of
the electric grid is a fundamental technological and socio-economical challenge to address …

Coupled aeropropulsive design optimization of a podded electric propulsor

MAS Abdul-Kaiyoom, AHR Lamkin, A Yildirim… - Structural and …, 2025 - Springer
Some novel aircraft concepts use unconventional propulsion technologies to reduce energy
usage. Innovative technologies like distributed electric propulsion and boundary layer …

Coupled aeropropulsive design optimization of a podded electric propulsor

A Yildirim, JS Gray, CA Mader, JR Martins - AIAA AVIATION 2021 …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3032. vid New aircraft concepts
increasingly rely on non-traditional propulsion systems to achieve lower energy …

SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine (SUSAN) System Integration Analysis With the Future Aircraft Sizing Tool (FAST).

YC Wang, M Stockhausen, P Mokotoff… - AIAA SciTech 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
NASA proposed the SUbsonic Single Aft eNgine electrofan concept (SUSAN) to meet the
increasing demand for electrified aircraft designs, which has the potential to reduce CO2 …

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 …