03.1 - Aerodynamics – CFD Methods and Validation

NOISE-OPTIMIZED HOVER PROPELLER DESIGN FOR VTOL CARGO DRONES IN TRANSIENT FLIGHT CONDITIONS

T. Moses¹, M. Hornung¹; ¹Technical University of Munich, Germany

Community noise is a major challenge for cargo drones during hover and transition. This work presents a hover propeller optimized specifically for transient flight conditions of a eVTOL cargo drone using a multidisciplinary design optimization framework. Aerodynamic and acoustic performance are assessed, with vehicle-level noise evaluated via a hybrid acoustic analogy approach.

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DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0569