Table of Contents

1. Benefits of electrified propulsion for large aircraft Rodger Dyson, Ralph Jansen and Nateri Madavan; 2. Aircraft electric power system design, control, and protection Robert Bayles; 3. Megawatt-scale electric machines for electrified aircraft propulsion Tim C. O'Connell and Xiaolong Zhang; 4. Superconducting machines and cables Thanatheepan Balachandran, Tim Haugan and Kiruba Haran; 5. Conventional power electronics for electrified aircraft propulsion Patrick Wheeler; 6. Cryogenic power electronics Zheyu Zhang, Fei (Fred) Wang and Ruirui Chen; 7. Electrochemical energy storage and conversion for electrified aircraft Ajay Misra; 8. Thermal management of electrified propulsion systems Charles E. Lents; 9. Performance assessment of electrified aircraft Jonathan C. Gladin.

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An ideal introduction to advances and outstanding challenges in large electric aircraft design, combining expertise from leading researchers.

About the Author

Kiruba Haran is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Nateri Madavan is Deputy Director for the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program, NASA Aeronautics Mission Directorate, NASA. Timothy C. O'Connell is Senior Lead Engineer for P.C. Krause & Associates and Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.