{"424591":{"#nid":"424591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mavris and ASDL team collaborate on efficient wing design","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA three-year, $875,000 collaboration between Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAerospace Systems Design Laboratory\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(ASDL), Virginia Tech, General Electric, and Boeing is seeking to reduce future airplane fuel consumption by as much as 60 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeaded up at Georgia Tech by AE\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/mavris-d\u0022\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris\u003C\/a\u003E, the Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) project has recently grabbed the attention of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Article.aspx?id=\/article-xml\/AW_01_27_2014_p40-656351.xml\u0026amp;p\u0022\u003EAviation Week\u003C\/a\u003E, which published a story on the project Jan. 27.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NASA-funded project is focused on designing a truss-braced wing that is not compromised by the weight penalty normally associated with conventional designs. The result is expected to burn substantially less fuel and could be ready for active deployment in an airliner by 2030.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Tech, Mavris has been working with a team of five professional and seven student researchers to optimize the wing planform and truss geometry for Boeing engineers who are then performing detailed finite element method (FEM) analysis and wind tunnel testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SUGAR project is also assessing the benefits of using hybrid electric propulsion which embeds an electric motor within the engine. This allows the engine\u2019s fan to be electrically powered in flight which results in lower fuel burn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs something of an added benefit, the SUGAR project prompted ASDL researchers to develop new evaluation tools, which can be used to assess detailed engine performance for a variety of engine architectures. The new suite of hybrid electric modeling elements employs the industry standard Numerical Propulsion Systems Simulation (NPSS) software, and can be used on engine variants involving fuel cells, batteries, and cryogenic components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe tools and models we\u2019ve developed on this project are ready to be deployed and used today for a wide variety of unconventional propulsion systems.\u201d explains ASDL researcher Christopher Perullo. \u201cThe deployment of a newly designed plane typically takes a lot longer, but we could see this as early as 2030.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A NASA-funded project  focused on designing a truss-braced wing that is not compromised by the weight penalty normally associated with conventional designs. The result is expected to burn substantially less fuel by 2030."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-14 14:33:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:04","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"129851","name":"Dimitri Mavris"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}