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Forum 78
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
May 10-12, 2022

eVTOL I

Technical Session A: Tues. May 10, 2022

Design of a Rotary Engine based High-Power Density Hybrid-Electric Power Generation Testbed
Roydon Fernandes, Jayaprakash Shivakumar, Mariana Gehrmann, Nicholas Miller, Kyle Collins, Patrick Currier, Richard Anderson

Development of eVTOL Aircraft For Urban Air Mobility At Joby Aviation
Alex Stoll, JoeBen Bevirt

Electromechanical Modeling and Testing of a Phase-Controlled Stacked Rotor
Matthew Asper, Jayant Sirohi, Michael Ricci, Jack Brewer

Fabrication, Testing, and Comparative Analysis of Lithium Sulfur and Lithium-Ion Electrochemistries
Emily Fisler, Anubhav Datta

Power System Characterization and Flight Testing of a >55lb Hybrid-Electric Multirotor
Michael Ricci, Vishaal Varahamurthy, Robert Hicks


eVTOL II

Technical Session B: Wed. May 11, 2022

Advanced Thermal Analysis Methodologies to Support eVTOL Propulsion System Optimization
Lee Rogers, Thomas Holdstock

Comprehensive Simulation for eVTOL Aircraft-Diagnosing Coupled Airframe-Propulsion Dynamic Instabilities
Felix Brenner, Llorenc Foraste Gomez, Jan Goericke, Matt Hasbun, Patrick O'Heron

Drag Performance Degradation Due to Icing of eVTOL
Geoffrey Karli, Sihong Yan, Robert McKillip, Jose Palacios

Experimental Evaluation of Panel-Method-Based Path Planning for eVTOL in A Scaled Urban Environment
Zeynep Bilgin, Murat Bronz, Ilkay Yavrucuk

Flight Characteristics of AAM/UAM-Scale Quadcopters Under Atmospheric Turbulence
Matthew Bahr, Etana Ferede, Farhan Gandhi

High-Fidelity Analysis of Six-Passenger Quadrotor Air Taxi Concept
Cameron Druyor, Li Wang

Parametric Investigation of Flow over a Rotor-Blown Wing using High-fidelity Simulations
Ullhas Udaya Hebbar, Farhan Gandhi, Onkar Sahni