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Vonhoff, George (author)The demand for air travel is increasing as more people gain access to commercial aviation. As the current generation of aircraft makes use of fossil fuel combustion, this growth results in an increase in the global emissions. This is at odds with the worldwide efforts of reducing the adverse effects of climate change. Therefore, advanced...master thesis 2021
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van der Leer, Quinty (author)The current focus in the aviation industry for more sustainable designs, could mean the revive of propeller propulsion, due to their relative high propulsion efficiency compared to jets. In addition, the application of wingtip-mounted propellers installed in tractor configuration can be used as tip-vortex attenuating devices, reducing the wing...master thesis 2021
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Nijsse, Jordy (author)Because of the expected return of civil supersonic flight, research is required to update supersonic noise regulations to allow public acceptance of civil supersonic flights. To advise ICAO on whether future supersonic aircraft will be able to comply with current regulations this thesis predicts the noise production of future supersonic...master thesis 2020
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Tran, Huy (author)The world is faced with two concurrent trends. The first is the growing demand for air travel in the long term. The second is the need to cut aircraft emissions due to environmental goals and ambitions set by authorities. Fully-electric aircraft are currently infeasible due to the limited battery specific energy and power. Hybrid-electric...master thesis 2020
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A coupled propulsion and thermal management system for hybrid electric aircraft design: A case studyLarkens, Robert (author)Air transport is facing an important challenge when it comes to the reduction of its environmental footprint. Hybrid electric aircraft offer a potential solution to reduce in-flight emissions. The essence of hybrid electric aircraft is to combine multiple energy sources and energy conversion systems, in order to improve the overall energy...master thesis 2020
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Lam, Tinie (author)The Flying-V is a unique concept aircraft to fly more energy efficient. With the V-shape passenger cabin integrated in its wings, a new interior is created with four different seat concepts. This raises the question of how the onboard services could be designed for the Flying-V. As a matter of fact, food plays an influencing role on the overall...master thesis 2020
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Proesmans, Pieter-Jan (author)The design and integration of the propulsion system is known to be an interesting, multi-disciplinary challenge in aircraft design projects. Especially for new aircraft configurations, it is important to gain a lot of knowledge in the preliminary design stages. An example of such an unconventional configuration is the box-wing aircraft examined...master thesis 2019
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Isacco, Roberto (author)Fundamental phase in the preliminary design of an aircraft is the load case choice. Historically, the manoeuvres have been considered as the principal critical loads, while in conceptual design the gusts have been not investigated since, being an intrinsically dynamic phenomenon, they are expensive to analyze. Nevertheless, they are a critical...master thesis 2019
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Peerlings, Bram (author)In the highly uncertain environment of conceptual aircraft design and technology assessment and selection, making good decisions is of utmost importance. Aiming to contribute to improving decision quality, the problem was researched from both a technical as well as a socio-psychological perspective. In the technical perspective, the uncertainty...master thesis 2019
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Bruggeman, Anne-Liza (author)With Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) a fully automated aircraft design analysis is set up and optimization algorithms are used to obtain better designs by balancing the synergy between components. In the EU project AGILE, a new methodology and framework were developed to make the MDAO approach more accessible to...master thesis 2019
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Rubio Pascual, Berta (author)The Flying-V is a novel flying wing concept where the main lifting surface has been fully integrated with the passenger cabin. Previous studies have focused on the aerodynamic and structural design of the airframe; but, prior to determining which engine-airframe integration alternative is most beneficial (e.g. boundary layer ingestion, distributed...master thesis 2018
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Mancini, Andrea (author)The need to reduce the pollutant impact of aircraft emission drives the research on aircraft design progress through off-design performance improvement. This report proposes to investigate the effect of maneuver load alleviation technology via wing control surfaces. A methodology is presented to model the MLA technology in aircraft conceptual...master thesis 2018
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Koopman, Thomas (author)The aviation sector and its associated activities contribute to climate change, damage to the environment, community noise, and local air pollution. As a consequence it affects the health and quality of life of citizens that live close to airports, and through climate change every person on earth. To reduce the impact of air travel and thereby...master thesis 2018
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Mulder, Halbe (author)To allow the incorporation of engine design in the Aircraft Initiator conceptual design tool, a modular engine design and performance estimation tool has been created, which is intended to allow the study of the effects of changes to engine architecture on the complete aircraft design. It generates estimates for engine thrust, specific fuel...master thesis 2018
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Schouten, Tom (author)Designers are motivated to create more a efficient aircraft design following the growth of the market and environmental restrictions. As a result new interest in propeller-powered aircraft as such engines show higher theoretical propulsive efficiency as compared to turbofan engines. <br/><br/>The employment of turboprop engines on commercial...master thesis 2018
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Bussemaker, Jasper (author)Improving the performance of large transport aircraft requires high aspect ratio and lightweight wings, making aeroelasticity an important factor in wing structural design. Active control of aeroelastic loads can be used to improve the aeroelastic behavior of the wing.<br/><br/>Two active load control techniques are considered: Maneuver Load...master thesis 2018
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Rao, Nithin (author)Aircraft design methodologies have been significantly developing from the past few years with the advancements in knowledge based techniques. These methods enable the storage of design knowledge and rules, and reuse them to create different types of designs, thus preventing the designer to perform repetitive tasks. Tasks such as parametric...master thesis 2017
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Van den Dungen, N.H.M. (author)A study is done to investigate the feasibility of the conceptual design of the Delft University Unconventional Configuration (DUUC), an aircraft featuring a ducted-fan propulsive empennage. This research is focused on ducted-fan performance analysis and aircraft longitudinal static stability and balance estimation. The aircraft design Initiator...master thesis 2017
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de Jonge, R.L.A. (author)The department of Flight Performance and Propulsion at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has developed the Design and Engineering Engine (DEE) concept to supportMultidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) of complex products. The goal of the DEE is to accelerate design, analysis and optimization by automating repetitive and non-creative...master thesis 2017
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