Aircraft Level Thermal Management Analysis for Early Design Stages of Future Aircraft: Integration of Systems and Compartments into an Interacting Generic Approach
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Muijden, J. van
Aalbers, V.J.E.
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Copyright: © 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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This research was funded from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 875006. This paper does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
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For future commercial aircraft having hybrid electric drivetrains, the impact of electrical power generation and distribution on heat production and required heat rejection is of a larger magnitude than for conventional aircraft. The thermal management system (TMS) to control component and compartment temperatures may require dedicated solutions. The impact of TMS on top-level aircraft requirements (TLARs), e.g., weight and drag penalties, should become clear in the early stages of design for integration in the configuration. To assess this impact, a generic approach is presented to support aircraft level thermal management analysis and design based on global aircraft parameters.
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van Muijden, J., & Aalbers, J. (2025). Aircraft Level Thermal Management Analysis for Early Design Stages of Future Aircraft: Integration of Systems and Compartments into an Interacting Generic Approach. Engineering Proceedings, 90(1), 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025090102