{"title":"Novel Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies for Advanced Electric Air Vehicles","authors":"R. Dyson","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-4993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4993","url":null,"abstract":"Future air vehicles will increasingly incorporate electrical powertrains that require very tight integration of power, propulsion, thermal, and airframe technologies. This paper provides an overview of a new category of thermal energy conversion technologies that can be used to provide highly efficient turbo-generation and electric propulsion, while synergistically managing and recycling both the low grade waste heat from electrical components and the high grade waste heat from engine components.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129005887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Flight Simulation of Spanwise Distributed Electric Propulsion for Directional Control Authority","authors":"J. Freeman, Garrett T. Klunk","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-4997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4997","url":null,"abstract":"A linear time-invariant state-space model was developed to simulate the six-degree-of-freedom aircraft dynamics of the Aircraft for Distributed Electric Propulsion Throttle-based Flight Control (ADEPT-FC), a 34 lb remote controlled aircraft featuring eight overwing electric ducted fans (EDFs) distributed spanwise along the wing's trailing edge. This model utilized parasite drag estimates from OpenVSP's parasite drag tool, trimmed stability coefficients from VSPAERO's stability coefficient solver, and mass properties measured from the as-built aircraft to populate the traditional vehicle dynamics portion of the model's state-space matrices. A second-order state-space frequency model of propulsor dynamics was developed and tuned to the frequency response of the Schübeler EDF as measured in wind-tunnel testing. The influence of propulsor thrust on the vehicle's dynamics was derived and superimposed into the vehicle dynamics state-space model, bridging the gap between a conventional vehicle's state-space model and the propulsor dynamics frequency models for each propulsor. This updated vehicle dynamics model can be provided both aircraft control surface deflections and propulsor thrust inputs to simulate the dynamic response of the vehicle. Without consideration of anticipated propulsion airframe integration (PAI) cross-coupling effects, the simulator developed herein suggested that asymmetric throttle mixing of the EDFs should provide a similar response to that of a rudder deflection. It is anticipated that addition of the PAI effects will magnify the roll rate associated with the maneuver, caused by thrust-induced lift over the outside wing. Further development of this technology could enable a reduction or elimination of the aircraft's vertical tail.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128300982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franklin Li Duan, Haotian Weng, Zhonglin Ji, Mingkai Hu, Xueqiang Cao, Qiang Wang, Jing Shao, Yuzhen Lin, Jianchen Wang, Zhichao Wang
{"title":"A New High-Temperature Sensing Device by Making Use of TBC Thermistor for Intelligent Propulsion Systems","authors":"Franklin Li Duan, Haotian Weng, Zhonglin Ji, Mingkai Hu, Xueqiang Cao, Qiang Wang, Jing Shao, Yuzhen Lin, Jianchen Wang, Zhichao Wang","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-5015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-5015","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal barrier coating (TBC) is an important material for aero-engine as a good thermal and electrical insulator. However this ceramic layer becomes electrically conductive at elevated temperatures above 600°C. By making use of its thermal resistance sensitivity to ambient temperature a smart thermal sensor can also be formulated to monitor the surface temperature on aero-engine turbine blade. In this paper the fabrication of this new sensor is reported together with comprehensive high-temperature characterizations such as repeatability, responsiveness and measurement error evaluation under various high temperature cycling and aero-engine onsite combustion test. Results show this sensor is capable to test the surface temperature in 500–1 000°C range or higher. YSZ-based (yttria-stabilized zirconia) TBC thermistor sensor shows a reliable and repeatable resistor vs temperature behavior and comparable responsiveness as conventional thermalcouple device with the measurement errors in 3%. Sensor fabrication is fairly simpels just involving a platinum soldering on TBC surface for wiring connection to outside meters. A new test array based on the YSZ thermal resistor is proposed as a temperature distribution monitor and verified by the aid of thermal-electrical interactive simulations. This simple methodology can be used for quick checking of surface temperature on turbine guide vane used in combustion chamber and other relevant parts.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132795567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, Fabrication, and Critical Current Testing of No-Insulation Superconducting Rotor Coils for NASA's 1.4 MW High-Efficiency Megawatt Motor","authors":"J. Scheidler, Thomas F. Tallerico","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-5002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-5002","url":null,"abstract":"NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a 1.4 MW high-efficiency electric machine for future electrified aircraft to reduce energy consumption, emissions, and noise. This wound-field, synchronous machine employs a self-cooled, superconducting rotor to achieve excellent specific power and efficiency. This paper discusses the design and fabrication of the no-insulation high temperature superconducting (HTS) rotor coils and compares them to conventionally insulated HTS coils. Two sub-scale test coils with epoxy on only one axial face were fabricated. Critical current testing of the coils at 77 K and self field was conducted to study the influence of thermal cycling on their critical current and n-value. After two or four aggressive thermal cycles between 77 K and about 278 K (5°C), the critical current and n-value were nearly unchanged, indicating very little to no degradation.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123928364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael J. Duffy, Abigail E. Sevier, R. Hupp, E. Perdomo, S. Wakayama
{"title":"Propulsion Scaling Methods in the Era of Electric Flight","authors":"Michael J. Duffy, Abigail E. Sevier, R. Hupp, E. Perdomo, S. Wakayama","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-4978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4978","url":null,"abstract":"Increases in congestion, pollution and population within cities pose significant transportation challenges in the coming years. Cities have responded with improvements in public infrastructure, but industry has responded with a more novel alternative. Instead of working within the confines allowed by current public transportation, businesses are investing in electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) vehicles. These vehicles represent a feasible option in the coming years due to improvements in battery and motor technology. A majority of the concepts exhibit distributed electric propulsion, employing multiple motors and propellers as shown in Figure 1.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124156720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research and Development Status of Manned Electric Flapping-Wing Aircraft","authors":"L. Qing, Nie Xiaofang, Zhou Ximing","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-4999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4999","url":null,"abstract":"Developing green aviation is a basic consensus in society. The development of manned electric flapping-wing aircraft has provided a bright technical path for realizing completely green aviation. This study has briefly introduced the development status of the driving mode of flapping-wing aircraft, the properties of electric aircraft and the composition of electric propulsion systems. Moreover, both the advantages and disadvantages of DC motors and polymer lithium batteries (two key components in an electric propulsion system) were analyzed. Through comprehensive comparison, electric drive was found to be appropriate for manned flapping-wing aircraft. Next, the objectives, research achievements, problems and challenges in the development process, as well as the detailed structure of manned flapping-wing aircraft, were clarified. Finally, future development directions have been presented.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"472 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131989503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mission Analysis and Emissions for Conventional and Hybrid-Electric Regional Jet Aircraft","authors":"Gabrielle E. Wroblewski, Phillip J. Ansell","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-5025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-5025","url":null,"abstract":"The mission performance and lifecycle CO2 emissions of a simulated hybrid-electric regional transport aircraft were analyzed utilizing a flight performance simulation developed in MATLAB/Simulink. Publicly-available Embraer ERJ-175 data was used as a model to simulate a representative regional jet transport. After completing simulations to obtain the flight performance of a baseline, conventional regional jet aircraft, a parallel hybrid drivetrain was embedded into the model, and a series of flight performance simulation data were obtained for a representative hybrid-electric regional jet. Various missions with different degrees of hybridization and battery specific energy densities were simulated and the resulting range and fuel burn characteristics were compared to the conventional system. To investigate the potential for hybrid-electric aircraft to reduce aircraft CO2emissions, the CO2emissions from both fuel burn and production of battery energy were modeled for each hybrid aircraft configuration. The results indicate that dramatic reductions in CO2emissions per passenger mile are achievable when compared to conventional systems of equivalent range for all hybrid cases. However, only mid-future battery technology allowed for reductions in CO2emissions per passenger mile when compared to the maximum range conventional mission.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114904454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NASA's Magnetic Gearing Research for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion","authors":"J. Scheidler, V. Asnani, Thomas F. Tallerico","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-4988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4988","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of the magnetic gearing research being conducted at NASA. First, the research is motivated through an in-depth discussion of the Agency-level aeronautics vision, the benefit of geared drivetrains, the barriers to applying mechanical gears in future aircraft concepts with electrified aircraft propulsion, and the characteristics of magnetic gears that allow them to overcome said barriers. Next, the principles of operation and current limitations of magnetic gears are discussed in the context of future electrified aircraft. Then, the authors' vision for the magnetic gearing research that will be needed to enable the next generation of electrified aircraft is presented. Lastly, the recent and ongoing magnetic gearing research at NASA is described, with a focus on the development and capabilities of a new rotating test rig and preliminary static measurements of a new in-house prototype. Results thus far are summarized.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125625200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Garrett T. Klunk, J. Freeman, Benjamin T. Schiltgen
{"title":"Tail Area Reduction for Aircraft with Spanwise Distributed Electric Propulsion","authors":"Garrett T. Klunk, J. Freeman, Benjamin T. Schiltgen","doi":"10.2514/6.2018-5022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-5022","url":null,"abstract":"Spanwise arrays of electrically driven propulsors may enable significant reductions to the required vertical tail area of an aircraft. The relationship between traditional empennage design and the driving requirements detailed in 14 CFR Part 25 was mapped, and the opportunities in which spanwise distributed electric propulsion could influence the empennage design were identified. The design of the electric microgrid that transmits and controls the flow of power to the propulsors was found to play a critical role in evaluating the potential merits of those opportunities. Careful design of the microgrid architecture was found to relax the asymmetric thrust design condition for the vertical tail to a point of irrelevance. Furthermore, active control of differential thrust between the propulsors could provide dynamic yaw stability to the aircraft, allowing the entire vertical tail to be removed. In contrast, however, a lighter weight microgrid architecture designed with no reconfigurability could exacerbate the asymmetric thrust and require a larger-than-nominal vertical tail. This paper explores the above opportunities and their associated costs as applied to the ECO-150 vision vehicle.","PeriodicalId":276296,"journal":{"name":"2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114614176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}