Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Climate-Neutral Transport Aviation (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 11
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Interests: aircraft design; sustainable aviation; hybrid-electric aircraft; hydrogen-based aircraft; multidisciplinary optimization
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Interests: aircraft design; green aviation; aerodynamics; flight mechanics; innovation; multidisciplinary optimization; flight dynamics; new aircraft concepts; hybrid-electric aircraft
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aviation sector is currently being forced to deal with a strong transformative phase driven by the urgent and non-negotiable goal of reducing its climate impact on our planet. The continuous growth of the aviation industry and the related increase in harmful anthropogenic emissions must be reduced as much as possible. Indeed, current forecasts foresee a doubling of passengers in the next 30 years, and a huge increase in greenhouse gas emissions if no action is undertaken. Significant technological and methodological improvements are necessary to meet this ambitious target. On the one hand, novel technological solutions are necessary to improve the current state of the art, which is close to reaching its maximum potential; on the other hand, each technological solution cannot be investigated as an isolated techno brick, and multidisciplinary and multifidelity approaches are necessary in the aircraft design process in order to extract the maximum benefits of introducing new technologies. In this broader context, this Special Issue intends to gather together the most relevant contributions related to the multidisciplinary optimization in the design and operation of air transportation systems aiming at reducing the climate impact of the aviation industry. Furthermore, contributions of research related to experimental validation of mathematical models (e.g., test bench-based assessment) that predict the performance characteristics of proposed technological solutions—such as hybrid electric or hydrogen-based powertrains, insights regarding air pollution and noise reduction, and trajectory optimization techniques to mitigate emissions—are particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Multidisciplinary design optimization;
- Hybrid electric aircraft;
- Hydrogen-based aircraft;
- Future perspectives of the air transportation sector;
- Conceptualization and design of novel, low-impact air transport solutions;
- Experimental validation of innovative technologies;
- Climate impact mitigation proposals for air transportation;
- Technology- and/or policy-related efforts to mitigate the climate impact of air transportation.
Dr. Giuseppe Palaia
Dr. Karim Abu Salem
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multidisciplinary optimization
- climate neutrality
- hybrid-electric powertrain
- hydrogen-based powertrain
- sustainable aviation fuels
- fuel cell
- sustainable aviation
- green air transportation
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