Special Issue on “Multidisciplinary Design of Aircraft and UAV with Novel Airframe Architectures” launched by Aerospace (MDPI)

Cipolla V. Publications

“Multidisciplinary Design of Aircraft and UAV with Novel Airframe Architectures”

A Special Issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310)

Guest Editor: Dr. Vittorio Cipolla, University of Pisa

Today, aeronautic research is driven toward solutions capable to reduce the environmental impact of air transport and seize the new opportunities offered by the digital transformation. The introduction of innovative propulsion technologies and architectures (e.g., distributed propulsion, hybrid power trains, BLI propulsion), sustainable drop-in and non-drop-in fuels (e.g., batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen, SAF), as well as the creation of new fields of applications for manned and unmanned vehicles (e.g., urban air mobility, hypersonic transport), allows expanding the aircraft design space beyond the boundaries of the conventional airframe architectures. Multidisciplinary design (MD) approaches are fundamental to explore such design space in order to achieve feasible design solutions and assess the operational and environmental benefits of the considered architectures. The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together the state of the art of multidisciplinary design methodologies and those application fields of the highest interest for research in aeronautics.