4 papers
A Multi-Physics Eulerian Framework for Long-Term Contrail Evolution
Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Manuel Soler
Condensation trails (contrails) are increasingly recognized as a major contributor to aviation-induced atmospheric warming, rivaling the impact of carbon dioxide. Mitigating their…
A Surrogate Framework for General Cruise-Phase Optimization of Commercial Aircraft
Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Manuel Soler, MarÃa Cerezo-Magaña
Optimizing commercial aircraft cruise trajectories using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP) is particularly challenging due to the nonlinear dynamics of aircraft speed, complex…
A Directional-ODE Framework for Discretization of Advection-Diffusion Equations
Amin Jafarimoghaddam, Manuel Soler, Irene Ortiz
We present a novel approach that redefines the traditional interpretation of explicit and implicit discretization methods for solving a general class of advection-diffusion equatio…
Satellite-Based Quantification of Contrail Radiative Forcing over Europe: A Two-Week Analysis of Aviation-Induced Climate Effects
Irene Ortiz, Ermioni Dimitropoulou, Pierre de Buyl +9
Aviation's non-CO effects, especially the impact of aviation-induced contrails, drive atmospheric changes and can influence climate dynamics. Although contrails are believed to…