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A Network Level Feasibility Framework for Beam-Powered Aircraft.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A Network Level Feasibility Framework for Beam-Powered Aircraft./
作者:	Wright, Ethan.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (104 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-10.
標題:	Transportation. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379435707

A Network Level Feasibility Framework for Beam-Powered Aircraft.
Wright, Ethan.

A Network Level Feasibility Framework for Beam-Powered Aircraft. - 1 online resource (104 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10.

Thesis (M.S.)--Purdue University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Beam-powered aircraft are a promising solution to reducing the air transportation system's operating costs and emissions due to their reliance on typically more efficient ground-based electricity sources. However, modeling these aircraft is a non-trivial task due to their multi-disciplinary nature and the required interconnectedness between the aircraft, air transportation network, and power-beaming models.This thesis establishes a methodology for holistically modeling beam-powered aircraft as a freight transportation asset in the context of their operating environment. This methodology accounts for elements of aircraft conceptual design, the limits of power-beaming technology, and non-idealities associated with the air transportation network. As a product of this methodology, this thesis also approximates beam-powered aircraft's economic and environmental feasibility based on current and future technological capabilities.This work concludes that with an optimistic enough "engine absent" mass fraction and with sufficiently advanced technologies -- particularly with higher power density rectennas -- beam-powered aircraft are both economically and environmentally feasible, having a lower operating cost and emitting less carbon dioxide per ton-mile compared to current-day and near-future freight transportation aircraft.More specifically, this work concludes that when using a simplified and more optimistic engine absent mass fraction model, power train specific power only needs to improve by a factor of 1.2-3.7 and rectenna power density only needs to improve by a factor of 20-30 compared to the baseline technologies considered in this work in order for beam-powered aircraft to be a feasible alternative to jet fuel powered aircraft in a freight transportation role. However, with a more pessimistic albeit more realistic engine absent mass fraction model, this work concludes that beam-powered aircraft are not feasible in a freight transportation role with the technology levels considered in this work.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379435707Subjects--Topical Terms:

558117
Transportation.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
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