Advanced Air Mobility Electric Vertical Take-off Landing Aircraft Configuration and Concept Design Generation and Evaluation
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Advanced Air Mobility, Electric VTOL, Generation and Evaluation, Aircraft ConfigurationAbstract
In the modern day, Advanced Air Mobility, including electric vertical take-off landing (eVTOL) aircraft, is getting traction. However, not all possible configurations are modelled and compared to each other. A structured generation method is proposed in this study, by combining building blocks as well as parametric sizing. The proposed method in this paper can model multicopter, vectored thrust, independent thrust, and combined thrust configurations. Combined thrust is a configuration that has not been explored in other studies. The proposed method also allowed more combinations of alternatives by varying the number of rotors, which are fairly limited in other studies. Seventeen alternative configurations are generated and evaluated. The generated alternatives are evaluated by performing aerodynamic, power, energy, and weight analysis. The results of the analysis will be then compared to the requirements. The method proposed in this paper can analyze the differences between each configuration.
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