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Dr Dante Kalise

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Reader in Computational Optimisation and Control
 
 
 
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742Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wells:2023:10.1016/j.trd.2023.103660,
author = {Wells, CA and Williams, PD and Nichols, NK and Kalise, D and Poll, I},
doi = {10.1016/j.trd.2023.103660},
journal = {Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment},
title = {Minimising emissions from flights through realistic wind fields with varying aircraft weights},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103660},
volume = {117},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The international aviation community has agreed to advance actions to reduce CO2 emissions. Adopting more fuel-efficient routes will achieve this goal quickly and economically. Full satellite coverage of transatlantic flight routes is now a reality, allowing us to consider moving from the Organised Track Structure to Trajectory-Based Operations. Here, fuel-optimal trajectories through wind fields from a global atmospheric re-analysis dataset are found using dynamic programming. The control variables of aircraft headings and airspeeds are varied to find free-time, fuel-minimal routes. Aircraft fuel consumption is modelled with a new model-specific fuel-burn function, which incorporates aircraft mass reductions as fuel is burned. From 1 December 2019 to 29 February 2020, fuel use from simulated routes is compared with fuel estimates based on recorded flight data. Results demonstrate that an average fuel reduction of 4.2% is possible without significant changes to flight duration. This equates to a reduction of 16.6 million kg of CO2 emissions. Therefore, free-time, fuel-minimal routes have the potential to offer substantial fuel and emissions savings.
AU  - Wells,CA
AU  - Williams,PD
AU  - Nichols,NK
AU  - Kalise,D
AU  - Poll,I
DO  - 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103660
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 1361-9209
TI  - Minimising emissions from flights through realistic wind fields with varying aircraft weights
T2  - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103660
VL  - 117
ER  -
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