Contact Dr Yicheng Sun
- Email: Yicheng.Sun@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Aircraft Design
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Background
Yicheng graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University) in both Aircraft Design (BEng) and Applied Mathematics (BSc). He obtained his Ph.D. from Cranfield University. Then he joined Tsinghua University as a post-doctoral researcher. He was awarded the Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Dr Sun is the champion of a national paper plane competition and holds the UK national record for distrance.
Research opportunities
• Aircraft Conceptual Design
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation
• Next-generation Supersonic Transport Design
Current activities
Yicheng is currently working on the GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment. GENUS is a multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization environment that has been developing in the Aircraft Design Group since 2012. GENUS has been applied to the conceptual design of hypersonic launchers and transports, conventional and blended-wing-body airliners, supersonic transports, tailless combat UAVs. There are ongoing projects under development in GENUS. Yicheng is now leading the development of GENUS and cooperating with other researchers to their projects.
Clients
- GKN Ltd
- Aircraft Technology Institute
- Airbus SE
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Kang L, Sun Y, Smith H & Mao J. (2023). The Effects of the Degree of Hybridisation on the Design of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Considering the Balance between Energy Efficiency and Mass Penalty. Aerospace, 10(2)
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2022). Design and operational assessment of a low-boom low-drag supersonic business jet. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 236(1)
- Kang L, Sun Y & Smith H. (2022). MDAO Method and Optimum Designs of Hybrid-Electric Civil Airliners. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 35(4)
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2022). Conceptual design of sonic boom stealth supersonic transports. CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 13(2)
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2020). Low-boom low-drag solutions through the evaluation of different supersonic business jet concepts. The Aeronautical Journal, 124(1271)
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2019). Low-boom low-drag optimization in a multidisciplinary design analysis optimization environment. Aerospace Science and Technology, 94
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2017). Review and prospect of supersonic business jet design. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 90(April)
- Yue K, Sun Y, Liu H & Guo W. (2015). Analysis of the Flow Field of Carrier-Based Aircraft Exhaust Jets Impact on the Flight Deck. International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 16(1)
Conference Papers
- Chan JL, Sun Y & Smith H. (2023). Airliner conceptual designs for the application of alternative fuels
- Smith H & Sun Y. (2020). Design Case of the E-19 AEOLUS Supersonic Business Jet
- Sun Y, Smith H & Chen H. (2020). Conceptual Design of Low-Boom Low-Drag Supersonic Transports
- Smith H & Sun Y. (2020). Withdrawal: Design Case of the E-19 AEOLUS Supersonic Business Jet
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2018). Sonic Boom and Drag Evaluation of Supersonic Jet Concepts
- Sun Y & Smith H. (2018). Supersonic Business Jet Conceptual Design in a Multidisciplinary Design Analysis Optimization Environment