Aircraft Design
Internship and thesis opportunity at AURA AERO company (Toulouse, France)
In the development of electric A/C, the integration of systems and batteries imply new challenges in the fields of Loads and Flutter assessment. The main activities are focused on loads and flutter assessment of electric A/C. The objective of the internship is to contribute to the development of a toolbox for computational aeroelasticity in an […]
A new paper published in Applied Sciences (MDPI): “A Conceptual Design Methodology for e-VTOL Aircraft for Urban Air Mobility” (Open Access)
Recent progress of electric systems has raised attention towards hybrid-electric and full-electric aircraft. Nevertheless, the current low battery energy density limits the application of these propulsive architectures to large transport aircraft. In the context of the general aviation category, full-electric aircraft for the so-called Urban Air Mobility scenario are gaining increasing interest. These air taxis, […]
A new paper published in Aerospace (MDPI): “A Physics-Based Multidisciplinary Approach for the Preliminary Design and Performance Analysis of a Medium Range Aircraft with Box-Wing Architecture” (Open Access)
The introduction of disruptive innovations in the transport aviation sector is becoming increasingly necessary. This is because there are many very demanding challenges that the transport aviation system will have to face in the years ahead. In particular, the reduction in pollutant emissions from air transport, and its impact on climate change, clearly must […]
A new paper published in Aerospace Science and Technology (Elsevier): “A DoE-based approach for the implementation of structural surrogate models in the early stage design of box-wing aircraft”
One of the possible ways to face the challenge of reducing the environmental impact of aviation, without limiting the growth of air transport, is the introduction of more efficient, radically different aircraft architectures. Among these, the box-wing one represents a promising solution, at least in the case of its application to short-to-medium haul aircraft, […]