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Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are increasingly of interest to designers looking for an affordable, efficient, and quiet solution to demands for Urban Air Mobility (UAM). Many types of configurations are under consideration and a variety of approaches to eVTOL UAM have been brought to the prototyping stage in the past few years. In this paper, the relative merit of each main class of configuration is evaluated using a weights-based optimization process. Optimal configurations are chosen across a two-dimensional domain of mission range and speed, with additional considerations made for rotor size, wing loading, and battery energy density parameters. Individual design points are also analyzed as case studies for the optimization and design process for different types of aircraft flying various UAM missions. This determination of optimal configuration for each mission specification may be used to inform a thorough trade analysis of possible aircraft designs and subsequent feasibility studies of specific proposals, particularly near the boundaries at which optimality transitions between configurations. Using weights as an analogue for design viability, the analy

Author

Akshay R. Kadhiresan; Michael J. Duffy

Publisher

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Published

2019

Language

EN