Consideration of the environmental impact of aircraft has become critical in commercial
aviation. The continued growth in air traffic has come with increasing concerns and
demands to reduce aircraft emissions and this has imposed new constraints on the de-
sign and development of future airplane concepts. In this work, an environmental design
framework has been developed to design and optimize aircraft for specific environmental
metrics. Multidisciplinary design optimization is used to optimize aircraft by simulta-
neously considering airframe, engine and mission design. The environmental metrics
considered include fuel burn, landing-takeoff NOx and fuel burn per distance flown. Additional concepts such as the design of large aircraft for short ranges are also presented.
Multi-objective optimization is also used to illustrate the tradeoffs between the various
environmental objective functions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/18341 |
| Date | 26 January 2010 |
| Creators | Henderson, Ryan |
| Contributors | Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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