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NASA researchers are continuously pushing boundaries on hybrid electric propulsion technology. Find below a collection of this knowledge, and be sure to check back for more as we continue to learn and explore. 

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2025

Altitudinal Trends on Seasonal and Geographic Contrail Persistent Regions Over CONUS Jimin Park AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition
Framework for Technical Performance Uncertainty in Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Development Jimin Park, Noah Listgarten, Halle Buescher, Dahlia D Pham IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
HIRF Avoidance for VTOL/AAM Vehicles Truong X Nguyen SAE AE2 Aerospace Lightning standard committee
Hybrid Electric Aircraft with Unlike Engine Degradation Using Model Predictive Control Halle E Buescher 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Hybrid Electric Turboprop Commercial Freighter Opportunity Ralph H Jansen, Peter DeBock, Erik Stalcup, Timothy Dever, Jarred M Wilhite, Dahlia D V Pham, Jacob Wishart AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition
Parallel Hybrid Turboprop Performance Modeling and Optimization Noah S Listgarten, Dahlia D V Pham, Carlos A D Natividad, Benjamin W Margolis, Kenneth R Lyons, Joseph A Garcia, Jeffrey V Bowles, Catherine E Russell AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition
Performance Scaling of Multi-Class Parallel Hybrid-Electric Regional Turboprop Airliner Concepts Dahlia D V Pham, Akshay M Naik, Carl J Recine, James Joseph, Noah S Listgarten, Carlos A D Natividad, Jimin Park, Jacob Wishart 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Seasonal and Geographical Trends on Contrail Persistent Regions Over CONUS Jimin Park NASA Technical Memorandum

2024

A HIRF-Map Certification Approach for UAM, AAM, and UAS Vehicles Truong Nguyen Electro Magnetic Applications Expo
Analysis of Hybrid Electric Aircraft Operations in the National Airspace System Robert Windhorst, Todd Lauderdale, Andrew Cone, Robert Fong, Kee Palopo, Dahlia Pham, James Phillips AIAA Forum and Exposition 2024
Feasibility Study of an All-Electric 150 Passenger Aircraft Gregory G Zilliac, Jeffrey V Bowles, Robert K Fong, Michael J Schuh, Dahlia D Pham, Vladimir Kuptsov AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition
Framework for National Airspace System (NAS) Level Sustainability Assessment of New Aircraft Robert Fong, Kevin James, Andrew Meade, Kee Palopo, Gregory Zilliac, Carl Recine, Dahlia Pham, Todd Lauderdale, Robert Windhorst, Banavar Sridhar AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
GASP Advancements With Symbolic Computations, Optimization, and Decoupled Numerical Methods Benjamin W L Margolis, Kenneth R Lyons, Joseph A Garcia, Dahlia D Pham, Noah S Listgarten, Carlos A Natividad, Jeffrey V Bowles, Evan Chang, Nolan Bridges AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition
Hybrid Electric Aircraft with Unlike Engine Degradation Halle E Buescher, Joseph W Connolly Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition (Turbo Expo)
Overview of the National Airspace System (NAS) Digital Twin Simulation Environment Todd A Lauderdale, Robert D Windhorst, Richard A Coppenbarger, David P Thipphavong, Heinz Erzberger AIAA Forum and Exposition
Parametric Modeling & Mission Performance Analysis of a True Parallel Hybrid Turboprop Aircraft for Freighter Operations Dahlia D Pham, Noah S Listgarten, Gregory Zilliac, Susie Go, Jeffrey V Bowles, Ralph H Jansen AIAA Forum and Exposition
Sizing and Performance Analysis of a MegaWatt-Class Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) System for a Parallel Hybrid Turboprop Concept Dahlia Pham, Carl Recine, Ralph Jansen 34th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS)
SUbsonic SIngle Aft eNgine (SUSAN) Power/Propulsion System Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Results Jonah J. Sachs-Wetstone, Halle E. Buescher, Marcus A. Horning AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS)
System Health Management for a Series/Parallel Partial Hybrid Powertrain with Distributed Electric Propulsion Jonathan S. Litt, Jonah J. Sachs-Wetstone, Halle E. Buescher, T. Shane Sowers, A. Karl Owen, Kristin C. Wu, Fiona Zheng, Jacklyn K. Tierney AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition

2023

Advanced Turboprop Transport Aircraft Modeling for the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration Project Dahlia D.V. Pham, Jeffrey V. Bowles, Carl Recine, Susie Go AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Analysis and Optimization of Baseline Single Aisle Aircraft for Future Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstrator Comparisons Carl J. Recine, Dahlia D. V. Pham, Jeffrey V. Bowles, Kenneth R. Lyons, Benjamin W. L. Margolis, Joseph A. Garcia AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
An MBSE Framework to Identify Regulatory Gaps for Electrified Transport Aircraft Stephen Glinski AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) Overview and Future Gaudy M. Bezos-O’Connor, Bradley D. French 172nd Meeting of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
Estimations of Aircraft and Airport Domestic Greenhouse Gas Emissions from 2016-2021 Susie Go, John E. Melton, Xun J Jiang, Gregory Zilliac AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Failure Behavior and Control Based Mitigation for a Parallel Hybrid Propulsion System Jonathan Kratz, Donald Simon AIAA Science & Technology (SciTech) Forum 2024
High-Intensity Radiated Field (HIRF) Map – An Avoidance Approach for UAM, AAM, and UAS Vehicles Truong X. Nguyen 42nd AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference
Impedance Measurements of Motor Drives and Supplies in NASA NEAT Facility Timothy P. Dever, David J. Sadey, Keith Hunker, Xavier Collazo, Patrick Hanlon, Peter E. Kascak, Casey Theman, Brian P. Malone AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Impedance Measurements of Motor Drive and Supply in SPEED Testbed Timothy P. Dever, Xavier Collazo, Patrick Hanlon, Keith R. Hunker, David J. Sadey, Casey Theman, Brian P. Malone AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Modeling and Simulation of a Parallel Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System – Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) Program Konstantinos Milios, Christopher Hall, Andrew Burrell, Joshua Brooks, James Kenny Jr., Jonathan Gladin, Dimitri Mavris NASA’s Glenn Research Center
NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration Project Overview Gaudy M. Bezos-O’Connor AIAA Science & Technology (SciTech) Forum 2023
The Electric Aircraft EcoSystem: Performance Potential, Economics and Societal Impact in the Age of Sustainable Air Travel Gaudy M. Bezos-O’Connor AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium

2022

Advanced 2030 Single Aisle Aircraft Modeling for the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration Program Mingxuan Shis, Jonathan Gladin, Anusha Harish, Dimitri Mavris AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Advanced 2030 Turboprop Aircraft Modeling for the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration Program Yu Ca, Jiacheng Xie, Gokcin Cinar, Gokcin Cinar AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Analysis and Optimization of Baseline Single Aisle Aircraft for Future Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstrator Comparisons Carl J. Recine, Dahlia D. V. Pham, Jeffrey V. Bowles, Kenny R. Lyons, Benjamin W. L. Margolis, and Joseph A. Garcia AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium
Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimations for 2016-2020 using the Sherlock Air Traffic Data Warehouse John E. Melton, Susie Go, Gregory G. Zilliac, Benjamin X. Zhang NASA’s Ames Research Center
Modeling and Simulation of a Parallel Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft for the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) Program Gokcin Cinar, Yu Cai, Russell K. Denney, Dimitrios N. Mavris AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium

2021

Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Flight Project Motor & Inverter Industry Day Gaudy Bezos-O’Connor, Ralph Jansen, Amy Jankovsky, Peter de Bock, Danny Cunningham NASA’s Glenn Research Center
NASA Sustainable Flight National Partnership James A. Kenyon AIAA Science & Technology (SciTech) Forum 2022

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