Wigeon

Wigeon is the name of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed during the final bachelors project within TU Delft's Design/Synthesis Exercise (DSE), April - June 2021.

This page summarizes all the outputs of this project.

DSE reports

Final DSE report, detailing the final design and multi-disciplinary optimization methology developed:

Alba-Maestre, Javier, Beyne, Egon, Buszek, Michael, Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Miguel, López, Noah Salvador, Poliakov, Nikita, Prud'homme van Reine, Koen, Santamaría, Alejandro Montoya, Schoser, Jakob, & Wadia, Kaizad. (2021). Final Report - Multi-Disciplinary Design and Optimisation of a Long-Range eVTOL Aircraft (2021-11-30). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5741614 

Midterm report, presenting a trade-off analysis amongst different concepts:

Alba-Maestre, Javier, Beyne, Egon, Buszek, Michael, Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Miguel, López, Noah Salvador, Poliakov, Nikita, Prud'homme van Reine, Koen, Santamaría, Alejandro Montoya, Schoser, Jakob, & Wadia, Kaizad. (2021). Midterm Report - Multi-Disciplinary Design and Optimisation of a Long-Range eVTOL Aircraft (2021-10-19). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5720244

Baseline report, presenting the market analysis and various possible concepts:

Alba-Maestre, Javier, Beyne, Egon, Buszek, Michael, Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Miguel, López, Noah Salvador, Poliakov, Nikita, Prud'homme van Reine, Koen, Santamaría, Alejandro Montoya, Schoser, Jakob, & Wadia, Kaizad. (2021). Baseline Report - Multi-Disciplinary Design and Optimisation of a Long-Range eVTOL Aircraft (2021-05-06). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5575954 

Scientific publications

Javier Alba-Maestre, Koen Prud’homme van Reine, Tomas Sinnige, Saullo G. P. Castro. "Preliminary Propulsion and Power System Design of a Tandem-Wing Long-Range eVTOL Aircraft". Applied Sciences, 2021. 10.3390/app112311083. 

Noah S. López, Alejandro M. Santamaría, Saullo G. P. Castro. "Preliminary aerodynamic design and load calculation of a long-range eVTOL aircraft". AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum. 10.2514/6.2022-1331. View/Download Watch Presentation

Jakob Schoser, Miguel Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Saullo G. P. Castro. "Preliminary control and stability analysis of a long-range eVTOL aircraft". AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum. 10.2514/6.2022-1029. View/Download   Watch Presentation

Egon E. Beyne and Saullo G. P. Castro. "Preliminary performance assessment of a long-range eVTOL aircraft". AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum. 10.2514/6.2022-1030. View/Download   Watch Presentation

Kaizad Wadia, Michael Buszek, Nikita Poliakov, Saullo G. P. Castro. "Preliminary design and analysis of crashworthy structures for a long-range eVTOL aircraft". AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum. 10.2514/6.2022-1485. View/Download   Watch Presentation

Code repository

https://github.com/saullocastro/DSE2021 (complete, not yet public with access under request)

https://github.com/saullocastro/tuduam: Integrates all resources of the DSE2021 repository, byt now with an updated documentation and full reorganization.