Design and Analysis of Supersonic Business Jet Concepts

Rallabhandi, Sriram K.; Mavris, Dimitri N.

doi:10.2514/6.2006-7702

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Aerodynamic optimisation 56, 62-66 continues to attract considerable interest with a variety of techniques, both high and low order methods, including sonic boom propagation with atmospheric variations, thermo-viscous absorption, molecular relaxation and diffusion phenomena. 67 …”

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confidence: 97%

Innovation in supersonic passenger air travel

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2012

Innovation in Aeronautics

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Innovation in supersonic passenger air travel

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2012

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“…Another option to obtain the near-field pressure signature around almost any complex geometry with a computational cost that is orders of magnitude smaller than a full CFD solution is to use 3D high-order panel methods [46][47][48]. These methods, developed heavily in the 1970s and 1980s, can provide a linearized inviscid supersonic solution of the near-field flow around the aircraft and have been used in optimization studies of low-boom configurations [49][50][51]. Even with panel methods, the geometry is modeled directly.…”

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Review of Sonic Boom Prediction and Reduction Methods for Next Generation of Supersonic Aircraft

Bonavolontà,

Lawson,

Riaz

2023

Aerospace

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The reduction of sonic boom levels is the main challenge but also the key factor to start a new era of supersonic commercial flights. Since 1970, a FAA regulation has banned supersonic flights overland for unacceptable sonic booms at the ground, and many research studies have been carried out from that date to understand sonic boom generation, propagation and effects, both on the environment and communities. Minimization techniques have also been developed with the attempt to reduce sonic boom annoyance to acceptable levels. In the last 20 years, the advances in both knowledge and technologies, and companies and institutions’ significant investments have again raised the interest in the development of new methods and tools for the design of low boom supersonic aircraft. The exploration of unconventional configurations and exotic solutions and systems seems to be needed to effectively reduce sonic boom and allow supersonic flight everywhere. This review provides a description of all aspects of the sonic boom phenomenon related to the design of the next generation of supersonic aircraft. In particular, a critical review of the prediction and minimization methods found in the literature, aimed at identifying their strengths, limitations and gaps, is made, along with a complete overview of disruptive unconventional aircraft configurations and exotic active/passive solutions to boom level reduction. The aim of the work is to give a clear statement of state-of-the-art sonic boom prediction methods and possible reduction solutions to be explored for the design of next low-boom supersonic aircraft.

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“…Spike Aerospace [8] is developing a low-boom SSBJ concept with innovative digital cabin. There have been many studies focusing on the business class supersonic transport concepts [9][10][11][12]. The supersonic airliner will be a next-step after the civil supersonic market is reopen.…”

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Conceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transports

Sun

Smith

2022

CEAS Aeronaut J

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This paper introduces a supersonic transport aircraft design model developed in the GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment. A conceptual design model appropriate to supersonic transports with low-to-medium-fidelity methods are developed in GENUS. With this model, the authors reveal the relationship between the sonic boom signature and the lift and volume distributions and the possibility to optimise the lift distribution and volume distribution together so that they can cancel each other at some region. A new inspiring design concept—sonic boom stealth is proposed by the authors. The sonic boom stealth concept is expected to inspire the supersonic aircraft designers to design low-boom concepts through aircraft shaping and to achieve low ground impacts. A family of different classes of supersonic aircraft, including a single-seat supersonic demonstrator (0.47 psf), a 10-passenger supersonic business jet (0.90 psf) and a 50-seat supersonic airliner (1.02 psf), are designed to demonstrate the sonic boom stealth design principles. Although, there are challenges to balance the volume with packaging and control requirements, these concepts prove the feasibility of low-boom low-drag design for supersonic transports from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Design and Analysis of Supersonic Business Jet Concepts

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Innovation in supersonic passenger air travel

Innovation in supersonic passenger air travel

Review of Sonic Boom Prediction and Reduction Methods for Next Generation of Supersonic Aircraft

Conceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transports

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