Design space exploration of small-scale PEM fuel cell long endurance aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - 6th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 14-29

  Moffitt, Blake A ^a,c,d   Bradley, Thomas H ^a,d,e   Mavris, Dimitri ^a,c,d   Parekh, David E ^b,d,e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS; LONG ENDURANCE AIRCRAFTS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE (PEM);

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; DURABILITY; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; PROTONS;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 33846621605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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