Overall Aircraft Design for New Airframe Technologies, New Energy Systems, and New Operations—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

In order to achieve carbon emission goals in the aviation sector, traditional airframe technologies, energy systems, and operation strategies (ATEOs) are no longer able to meet the evolving demands made of future aircraft. Radically new ATEOs present great potential in terms of reducing aviation carbon emissions, but also pose numerous challenges. In the context of a growing focus on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban air mobility, a resurgence of interest in civil high-speed flight, and the increasing consensus on achieving net-zero aviation carbon emissions by 2050, this Special Issue aims to gather together the latest research on aircraft design pertaining to ATEOs, such as laminar flow control, variable camber, boundary-layer ingestion for airframe technologies, lithium batteries, sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), methane, and hydrogen for energy storage systems, as well as fuel cells and electric motors for energy conversion systems, and operation strategies like formation flight (cooperative trajectories), intermediate refueling, and continuous climb/descent.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions on areas of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. EVTOL aircraft design and optimization;
2. Civil high-speed aircraft design and optimization;
3. Aircraft design case studies on new configurations;
4. Aircraft technology integration (e.g., laminar flow control, boundary layer ingestion, and advanced composite materials);
5. Evaluation of new energy systems for aircraft (e.g., hybrid electric propulsion and hydrogen fuel cells);
6. Assessment of operational strategies for aircraft (e.g., formation flight and trajectory optimization);
7. Aviation emission reduction strategies, including case studies and reviews;
8. Multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization, incorporating disciplinary methods and/or optimization strategies;
9. Digital and model-based design approaches for new configurations;
10. New aircraft design methods, tools, and frameworks (e.g., machine learning-based approaches).

Dr. Yaolong Liu
Guest Editor

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