Connecting Future Aviation Experts
The EXAELIA Academy is a dynamic initiative designed to connect students, researchers, and young engineers with leading experts in aviation. Within the EXAELIA project, students have the opportunity to work on key topics under the supervision of university professors and with mentoring from EXAELIA partners.
To support collaboration, the Academy offers a suite of collaborative engagements, including webinars, training sessions, and hands-on workshops. These activities create opportunities for direct interaction with researchers and industry professionals, encouraging knowledge exchange and skill development.
A key goal of the Academy is to build a strong network of students, postdocs, and engineers working on validated designs and exploitation plans for large-scale European flying testbed assets. Through this collaborative network, participants are encouraged to share knowledge and skills that align with the evolving demands of the aviation industry.
By participating in the EXAELIA Academy, participants contribute to real-world research while gaining valuable experience in the evolving aerospace sector.
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Design concept
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Design Concept In the pursuit of Clean Aviation, the next generation of air transport necessitates a fundamental departure from conventional design paradigms toward ultra-lightweight, high-efficiency architectures. TU Delft is spearheading the advancement of Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), establishing a holistic framework where high-fidelity aerodynamics, tailored composite structural laminates, flight dynamics, and active control technologies are concurrently co-optimized to push the boundaries of performance. Recognizing that future aircraft will likely feature high-aspect-ratio wings and hydrogen-based propulsion systems, we address the resulting aeroelastic and integration challenges by exploring disruptive configurations, such as the Blended Wing Body (BWB), Strut-Braced Wing (SBW), and Box Wing designs. By synthesizing these emerging technologies, our research aims to overcome the inherent complexities of radical aircraft design to realize a sustainable, carbon-neutral aviation ecosystem.
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Flying Testbeds Testing
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Flying Testbeds (NLR) The development of flying testbeds comes with a multitude of challenges. Some of these challenges materialize as design trade-offs that have to be made early in the design phase. Such a trade-off is for example “relevance vs. costs”, which determines, among other things, the geometric scale of the testbed. Other challenges come into the picture at later stages, such as more practical issues related to performance or operational safety. In the context of EXAELIA, the development of flying testbeds for next-generation long-range aircraft within EXAELIA comes with entirely new challenges. NLR has experience with the entire development process of flight test vehicles, from concept generation to operation and data interpretation, and can support the EXAELIA academy participants with consultations and reviews of their work in progress.
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Engine Integration & Thermal Management
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Engine Integration & Thermal Management (AUTH) (a) on the investigation of propulsion-airframe integration for innovative architectures (UHBR, hybrid-electric, hydrogen and DEP), quantifying the impact on aerodynamics, installation drag and weight and (b) on developing advanced thermal management strategies, by designing innovative heat-exchanger configurations and using surrogate models to optimize efficiency and ensure feasibility for emerging propulsion concepts. Within EXAELIA Academy this will be addressed on three platforms and associated propulsion choices: a SAF-powered BWB featuring an advanced DEP/superconductivity propulsion concept, an H₂-powered BWB with hydrogen-electric propulsion and an H₂-powered TAW with hydrogen-based propulsion integration, representative of a tube-and-wing configuration.
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Check out the Academy timeline below and all necessary guidelines and templates:
Academy Timeline
