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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (20): 532069.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32069

• Special Issue: Key Technologies for Supersonic Civil Aircraft • Previous Articles    

Challenges and prospects for overall aerodynamic technology of next-generation supersonic passenger aircraft

Junfu LI1,2,3, Yan ZHAO2(), Wei WANG2, Lu XIE2, Hui ZHANG2, Long WANG2, Lin YUAN2, Yuting TAN2, Yu NING2,3   

  1. 1.Aeronautical College,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China
    2.AVIC The First Aircraft Design Institute,Xi’an 710089,China
    3.National Key Laboratory for Fundamental Configuration of Aircraft,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China
  • Received:2025-04-02 Revised:2025-05-26 Accepted:2025-06-03 Online:2025-06-23 Published:2025-06-10
  • Contact: Yan ZHAO E-mail:zhaoyan19920504@163.com

Abstract:

Supersonic passenger aircraft can fly at speeds exceeding the speed of sound for extended periods along flight routes, reducing the flight time of long-haul flights operated by subsonic passenger aircraft by more than half and significantly improving journey comfort. Therefore, green and efficient supersonic passenger aircraft has once again become a research hotspot in the civil aviation field. This paper first briefly reviews the development history of supersonic passenger aircraft. It then focuses on summarizing the technical challenges in the overall aerodynamics that need to be addressed for the operational deployment of supersonic passenger aircraft, including multidisciplinary design optimization technology, integrated airframe-propulsion system design technology, external vision fusion cockpit design technology, low sonic boom design technology, sonic boom suppression technology, supersonic cruise drag reduction technology, and sonic boom wind tunnel test technology. Finally, it discusses the development directions of key technologies for supersonic passenger aircraft.

Key words: supersonic passenger aircraft, multidisciplinary design optimization, integrated airframe-propulsion system, external vision fusion, sonic boom, supersonic cruise drag reduction

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