eVTOLUTION : EVTOL MULTI-FIDELITY HYBRID DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION FOR LOW NOISE AND HIGH AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE

This project supports the digital transformation of aircraft design by developing new multi-disciplinary and multi-fidelity simulation
tools that will enable novel aircraft architectures with improved aerodynamics and reduced noise emissions. This project addresses more
specifically the design issues of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft developed for Urban Air Mobility, but the innovative
design/optimization framework that are proposed in this project are equally applicable to other novel aircraft architectures, such as those
based on Distributed Electric Propulsion, Boundary Layer Ingestion, or open rotors. One common issue for most novel aircraft concepts
is indeed the complexity of the aerodynamic and acoustic interactions between the lift-thrust systems and the airframe. eVTOLUTION is
designed as a low-to-mid-TRL enabler project meant to develop the knowledge, data, tools, and methods that are necessary to understand,
model, and optimize aerodynamic and aeroacoustic installation effects. The main objective of the project is to implement and demonstrate
a novel design and optimization framework, built upon three pillars