Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
2025
Guidotti M., and Clarke M. A., “Considerations for Introducing Alternative Energy Carriers in Commercial Aviation: From Refueling to Flight Operations,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (In Preparation).
2025
Guidotti M., and Clarke M. A., “RCAIDE: Research Community Aerospace Interdisciplinary Design Environment,” Aerospace Science And Technology (In Preparation).
2025
Guerrero, Y. N., Molloy, A.R., Artemyev, N., and Clarke, M.A., “Quantifying Noise Insulation Costs of Proposed Urban Air Mobility Operations,” Nature Sustainable Mobility and Transport (In Preparation).
2025
Guerrero, Y. N., Molloy, A.R., Nanjappa N., Cipriani A., Artemyev N. , Clarke M.A., and Tillman C.M., "New Metric for Characterizing the Socioeconomic Impact of Noise Pollution from Proposed Urban Air Mobility Operations," Journal of Air Transportation (Under Review).
2025
Boggan, C. and Clarke, M.A., "Assessment of Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation in Electric Aircraft Under a Cycle-Progressive Load Profile,” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Under Review).
2025
Guidotti M., Gupta R., Dost J., Mehta D., Kolar A., Zhang C., Ansell P. J., and Clarke M.A., “Energy-Based Assessment of Alternative Aviation Fuels for U.S. Domestic Transport Aircraft,” Journal of Air Transportation (Under Review).
2025
Guidotti M., and Clarke M. A., “The Sustainable Aviation Technology Dashboard: A Platform to Explore Alternative Energy Pathways,” Journal of Open Research Software (Under Review).
2025
Shekar, S S. and Clarke, M.A., "Optimizing Thermal Management Systems to Augment the Operational Longevity of Electric Aircraft," Journal of Aircraft (Accepted, Awaiting Publication).
2023
Zhao, C., Clarke, M. A., Kellermann H. and Verstraete D., “Liquid Cooling Systems for Batteries of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft” Journal of Aircraft 2024 61:3, 667-683
2022
Clarke, M. A., and Alonso, J.J., 2022. “Forecasting the Operational Lifetime of Battery-Powered Electric Aircraft”. Journal of Aircraft, pp.1-9.
2021
Clarke, M. A., and Alonso. J. J., "Lithium–Ion Battery Modeling for Aerospace Applications" Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 58, No. 6 (2021), pp. 1323-1335.
Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
2025
Boggan, C. and Clarke, M. A., "Experimental Characterization of Electric Aircraft Battery Degradation Using Accelerated and Evolving Load Profiles," 2025 IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2025
2025
Guidotti M., Gupta R., Dost J., Mehta D., Kolar A., Zhang C., Ansell P. J., and Clarke M. A., "The Impact of Alternative Fuels on U.S. Domestic Aviation Emissions," AIAA 2025-3102. AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025. July 2025.
2025
Shekar S. S. and Clarke M. A., "Optimizing Thermal Management Systems to Augment the Operational Longevity of Electric Aircraft," AIAA 2025-1474. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum. January 2025.
2025
Clarke, M. A., Molloy, A. R., Nanjappa, N., Guerrero, Y. N., Cipriani, A., Artemyev, N., and Tillman, C. M, "New Metric for Characterizing the Socioeconomic Impact of Noise Pollution from Proposed Urban Air Mobility Operations," AIAA 2025-2003. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum. January 2025.
2024
Shekar S. S. and Clarke, M. A., "Physics-Based Approaches for Sizing Thermal Management Systems for Battery-Electric Regional Aircraft," AIAA 2024-4077. AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2024 . July 2024.
2024
Nanjappa, N. and Clarke, M. C., “An extension of Hanson's theory of harmonic noise of rotors”, Art. no. A34.007, 2024.
2023
Shekar S. S. and Clarke, M. A., "Design and In-Flight Analysis of an Electric Aircraft’s Battery Thermal Management System," 2024 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024.
2023
Clarke, M. A., "An Open-Source Framework For Modeling Aircraft Noise In Urban Environments", AIAA Aviation Forum. San Diego, CA, Jun. 2023.
2023
Clarke, M. A., Botero E., Alonso J.J., “Aeroacoustic Optimization of VTOL Rotor Blades” submitted to AIAA SciTech Forum, Washington, DC Jan. 2023
2022
Botero E., Clarke, M. A., Erhard R., Smart J., Alonso J.J., Blaufox A., “Aerodynamic Verification and Validation of SUAVE” AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2022. AIAA 2022-1929
2022
Clarke, M. A. and Alonso J.J., “Forecasting the Operational Lifetime of Electric Aircraft Through Battery Degradation Modeling” AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2022. AIAA 2022-19964.
2021
Clarke, M. A. and Alonso J.J., “Evaluating the Performance and Acoustic Footprint of Aircraft for Regional and Urban Air Mobility” AIAA Aviation Forum, Washington, DC, Jun. 2021 AIAA 2021-3205
2021
Clarke, M. A., Erhard, R., Smart, J. and Alonso J.J., “Aerodynamic Optimization of Wing-Mounted Propeller Configurations for Distributed Electric Propulsion Architectures” AIAA Aviation Forum, Washington, DC, Jun. 2021 AIAA 2021-2471
2021
Erhard R., Clarke, M. A. and Alonso J.J., “A Low-Cost Aero-Propulsive Analysis of Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft” AIAA SciTech Forum, Jan. 2021. AIAA 2021-1200
2019
Vegh J. M., Botero E., Clarke M., Smart J., and Alonso J.J., “Current Capabilities and Challenges of NDARC and SUAVE for eVTOL Aircraft Design and Analysis” AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, Indianapolis, IN, August 2019. AIAA 2019-4505
2018
Clarke, M., Smart, J., Botero, E., Maier, W. and Alonso, J. J., “Strategies for Posing a Well-Defined Problem for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles” AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan 2018. AIAA 2019-0818
2017
MacDonald, T., Clarke, M., Botero, E., Vegh, J. M. and Alonso, J. J., “SUAVE: An Open-Source Environment for Multi-Fidelity Vehicle Optimization” AIAA Aviation Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017. AIAA 2017-4437