Aircraft Noise Mitigation—Concepts, Assessment, and Implementation
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 1267
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aircraft noise; noise prediction; aircraft design; flight simulation; noise abatement procedures; uncertainty quantification; auralization; low-noise aircraft design; perception-influenced design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
This Special Issue aims to attract contributions on the mitigation of exterior aircraft noise—specifically covering the following three subtopics: (1) concepts, (2) assessment, and (3) implementation. Contributions can focus on conventional or novel transport aircraft, conceptual supersonic transport aircraft, or advanced air mobility vehicles.
Topic 1—concepts consists of novel ideas aiming to achieve a) noise reduction for single components onboard aircraft; b) reductions across an entire aircraft during specific operations, and c) the reduction of noise under large-scale air traffic scenarios around an airport. Accordingly, component modifications can be either measures retrofitted to existing component designs or completely novel concepts, and noise reduction for a whole aircraft can be achieved via technology on board designed to reduce noise generation at the source or enable low-noise flight. All such measures are ultimately assessed in an airport scenario, i.e., comprising multiple flights under given traffic routing concepts. At this point, modifications to airport layout, fleet composition, or traffic routing could be addressed. The overall effect of introducing novel technologies to the component and aircraft levels will be evaluated here.
Topic 2—assessment includes all activities pertinent to the context of assessing aircraft noise, potential mitigation concepts, and methods for evaluation. Contributions should focus on method development, i.e., both experimental and numerical methods (from empirical to high-fidelity tools), and assessment concepts. Assessing noise can include novel metrics or noise descriptors, e.g., sound quality concepts or alternative evaluation concepts designed to quantify noise exposure in a specific situation. Here, the focus can be on the quantification of a) single events and/or b) airport scenarios or the entire airspace.
Topic 3—implementation focuses on proofs of concept or the market introduction of novel concepts, technologies, and modern aircraft. For example, we aim to gather together contributions describing flight test results for novel technology or the implementation of novel technology, concepts, and modern aircraft at airports. For this topic, we specifically ask for practical applications and experiences from stakeholders, e.g., airlines or airports.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Lothar Bertsch
Dr. Rainer Schmid
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aircraft noise
- noise mitigation
- noise reduction concepts
- noise assessment methods
- low-noise flight operations
- airport noise management
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