TY  - JOUR
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Götten, Falk
T1  - Neue Ansätze für die Entwicklung von unbemannten Fluggeräten
JF  - Ingenieurspiegel
N2  - Wie sieht das unbemannte Flugzeug von Übermorgen aus? Dieser Frage stellen sich Forscher an der Fachhochschule Aachen. Die weltweit rasant fortschreitende Entwicklung des Marktes für unbemannte Fluggeräte (UAVs - „Unmanned Aerial Vehicles“) bietet großes Potenzial für Wachstum und Wertschöpfung. Unbemannte fliegende Systeme können – für bestimmte Anwendungsgebiete – wesentlich günstiger, kleiner und effizienter ausgelegt werden als bemannte Lösungen. Dabei sind sich viele Unternehmen über das mögliche Potential dieser Technologie noch gar nicht bewusst.
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 1868-5919
N1  - Project: UAV Design
VL  - 2019
IS  - 1
SP  - 67
EP  - 68
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Götten, Falk
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Havermann, Marc
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Gomez, Francisco
A1  - Bill, C.
T1  - On the flight performance impact of landing gear drag reduction methods for unmanned air vehicles
JF  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2018
N2  - The flight performance impact of three different landing gear configurations on a small, fixed-wing UAV is analyzed with a combination of RANS CFD calculations and an incremental flight performance algorithm. A standard fixed landing gear configuration is taken as a baseline, while the influence of retracting the landing gear or applying streamlined fairings is investigated. A retraction leads to a significant parasite drag reduction, while also fairings promise large savings. The increase in lift-to-drag ratio is reduced at high lift coefficients due to the influence of induced drag. All configurations are tested on three different design missions with an incremental flight performance algorithm. A trade-off study is performed using the retracted or faired landing gear's weight increase as a variable. The analysis reveals only small mission performance gains as the aerodynamic improvements are negated by weight penalties. A new workflow for decision-making is presented that allows to estimate if a change in landing gear configuration is beneficial for a small UAV.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25967/480058
PB  - DGLR
CY  - Bonn
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Götten, Falk
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Bil, C.
T1  - On Aircraft Design Under the Consideration of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems
T2  - APISAT 2018: The Proceedings of the 2018 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2018)
N2  - A hybrid-electric propulsion system combines the advantages of fuel-based systems and battery powered systems and offers new design freedom. To take full advantage of this technology, aircraft designers must be aware of its key differences, compared to conventional, carbon-fuel based, propulsion systems. This paper gives an overview of the challenges and potential benefits associated with the design of aircraft that use hybrid-electric propulsion systems. It offers an introduction of the most popular hybrid-electric propulsion architectures and critically assess them against the conventional and fully electric propulsion configurations. The effects on operational aspects and design aspects are covered. Special consideration is given to the application of hybrid-electric propulsion technology to both unmanned and vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The authors conclude that electric propulsion technology has the potential to revolutionize aircraft design. However, new and innovative methods must be researched, to realize the full benefit of the technology.
KW  - Hybrid-electric aircraft
KW  - Aircraft design
KW  - Design rules
KW  - Green aircraft
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-981-13-3305-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3305-7_99
N1  - APISAT 2018 - Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology. 16-18 October 2018. Chengdu, China.

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE, volume 459)
SP  - 1261
EP  - 1272
PB  - Springer
CY  - Singapore
ER  -