Conceptual Advanced Transport Aircraft Design Configuration for Sustained Hypersonic Flight

Can Alkaya,Apostolos Pesyridis,Ashish Alex Sam

doi:10.3390/aerospace5030091

Abstract

The conceptual aircraft design and its integration with a combined cycle engine for hypersonic cruise at Mach 8 is documented in this paper. The paper describes the process taken to develop a hypersonic aircraft from a conceptual approach. The discussion also includes the design and CFD analysis of the integrated combined cycle engine. A final conceptual hypersonic transport aircraft with an integrated combined cycle engine was achieved through this study. According to the analysis carried out, the aircraft is able to take-off and land at the airports it is intended to be used and will be able to generate enough thrust to sustain hypersonic cruise at an altitude of 30 km.

Highlights

Interest and demand in commercial supersonic and hypersonic travel is rising with more aerospace companies investing into new engine technologies and developing concept aircraft designs capable of supersonic and hypersonic travel
Most concept aircraft use a combination of different types of engines to achieve the full flight profile, some concept aircraft incorporates the use of combined cycle engines to achieve the full flight speed range from 0 Mach to 5+ Mach
The paper involves the design of the aircraft from its conceptual design to the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of the hypersonic aircraft integrated with the combined cycle engine

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Introduction

Interest and demand in commercial supersonic and hypersonic travel is rising with more aerospace companies investing into new engine technologies and developing concept aircraft designs capable of supersonic and hypersonic travel. Companies such as Boeing, Airbus, Reaction Engines, and Lockheed-Martin have all produced conceptual designs for commercial hypersonic travel [1]. The objective of the present work is to develop a commercial transport aircraft with an integrated combined cycle engine for hypersonic cruise at Mach 8. The paper involves the design of the aircraft from its conceptual design to the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of the hypersonic aircraft integrated with the combined cycle engine

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