Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Electrified Aircraft: A New Design Space For a More Sustainable Aviation
Gökçin Çınar
Research Engineer
Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology
The global aviation industry is an important contributor to climate change due to the products emitted by fossil fuel combustion. Electrified aircraft propulsion is a novel technology that has the potential to significantly reduce, and even fully eliminate fuel consumption and aircraft emissions while allowing for more affordable and quieter flights. Electrification enables diverse propulsion architectures and fundamentally changes the relationship between the propulsion system and the airframe, creating a very rich and complex aircraft design space with many exciting opportunities. However, it also poses significant challenges due to technological bottlenecks, lack of historical data, and high levels of uncertainty. Thus, potential environmental benefits can be easily diminished by suboptimal propulsion solutions.
In this talk, I will address the diverse design space and the importance of performing architectural and operational trade studies in the early aircraft design stages. I will present a methodology to perform the sizing, integration, and performance evaluation of electrified aircraft. I will explore advanced design methods and surrogate modeling techniques to enable rapid evaluation of hundreds of sized and optimized designs. Finally, I will outline some strategic areas for future research to maximize the environmental benefits of novel aircraft concepts.
About the speaker...
Dr. Gökçin Çınar works as a Research Engineer at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her main research interests include electrified aircraft and propulsion, systems design and integration, model-based engineering, and advanced design methods. She is currently working on a range of government and industry funded research projects on novel aircraft technologies for greener aviation.
Dr. Çınar received her B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She serves as the Publications and Policy Chair of the AIAA Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee. She is also serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium.
Research Engineer
Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology
The global aviation industry is an important contributor to climate change due to the products emitted by fossil fuel combustion. Electrified aircraft propulsion is a novel technology that has the potential to significantly reduce, and even fully eliminate fuel consumption and aircraft emissions while allowing for more affordable and quieter flights. Electrification enables diverse propulsion architectures and fundamentally changes the relationship between the propulsion system and the airframe, creating a very rich and complex aircraft design space with many exciting opportunities. However, it also poses significant challenges due to technological bottlenecks, lack of historical data, and high levels of uncertainty. Thus, potential environmental benefits can be easily diminished by suboptimal propulsion solutions.
In this talk, I will address the diverse design space and the importance of performing architectural and operational trade studies in the early aircraft design stages. I will present a methodology to perform the sizing, integration, and performance evaluation of electrified aircraft. I will explore advanced design methods and surrogate modeling techniques to enable rapid evaluation of hundreds of sized and optimized designs. Finally, I will outline some strategic areas for future research to maximize the environmental benefits of novel aircraft concepts.
About the speaker...
Dr. Gökçin Çınar works as a Research Engineer at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her main research interests include electrified aircraft and propulsion, systems design and integration, model-based engineering, and advanced design methods. She is currently working on a range of government and industry funded research projects on novel aircraft technologies for greener aviation.
Dr. Çınar received her B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She serves as the Publications and Policy Chair of the AIAA Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee. She is also serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium.
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