Although civil aircraft environmental performance has been important since the beginnings of commercial aviation, continuously increasing air traffic and a rise in public awareness have made aircraft noise and emissions two of the most pressing issues hampering commercial aviation growth today. This, in turn, has created the demand for an understanding of the impact of noise and emissions requirements on the design of the aircraft. In response, the purpose of this research is to explore the feasibility of integrating noise and emissions as optimization objectives at the aircraft conceptual design stage, thereby allowing a quantitative analysis of the tradeoffs between environmental performance and operating cost. A preliminary design tool that uses a multiobjective genetic algorithm to determine optimal aircraft configurations and to estimate the sensitivities between the conflicting objectives of low noise, low emissions, and operating costs was developed. Beyond evaluating the ability of a design to meet regulations and establishing environmental performance trades, the multidisciplinary design tool allows the generation or conventional but extremely low-noise and low-emissions designs that could, in the future, dramatically decrease the environmental impact of commercial aviation, albeit at the expense of increased operating cost. The tool incorporates ANOPP, a noise prediction code developed at NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Glenn Research Center's Engine. Performance Program engine simulator, and aircraft design, analysis, and optimization modules developed at Stanford University. The trend that emerges from this research among the seemingly conflicting objectives of noise, fuel consumption, and NO(x) emissions is the opportunity for significant reductions in environmental impact by designing the aircraft to fly slower and at lower altitude.


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    Titel :

    Framework for aircraft conceptual design and environmental performance studies


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Software-Werkzeug zum konzeptionellen Entwurf und zur Untersuchung der Umweltverträglichkeit von Flugzeugen


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    AIAA Journal ; 43 , 10 ; 2100-2109


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    10 Seiten, 13 Bilder, 7 Tabellen, 23 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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