Abbreviations and Acronyms
A
- ACARE
- Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe
- ACTE
- adaptive compliant trailing edge
- ADP
- aerodynamic design point
- AFRL
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- AIA
- Aerospace Industry Association
- AIAA
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- AIC
- aviation‐induced cloudiness
- AHEAD
- Advanced Hybrid Engines for Aircraft Development
- AJF
- alternative jet fuel
- AoA
- angle of attack
- APU
- auxiliary power unit
- AR
- aspect ratio
- ASME
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASTM
- American Society for Testing and Materials
- ATM
- air traffic management
- ATP
- advanced turboprop
- ATRA
- advanced technology research aircraft
B
- BBSAN
- broadband shock‐associated noise
- BF
- block fuel
- BFL
- balanced field length
- BLC
- boundary layer control
- BLI
- boundary layer ingestion
- BPF
- blade passing frequency
- BPR
- bypass ratio
- BTH
- biomass to hydrogen
- BTL
- biomass to liquid
- BWB
- blended wing body
C
- CAAFI (US)
- Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative
- CAEP
- Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection
- CC
- circulation control
- CCD
- climb‐cruise‐descent
- CD
- convergent‐divergent
- CFC
- chlorofluorocarbons
- CFD
- computational fluid dynamics
- CFR
- compact fusion reactor
- CJ
- Chapman‐Jouguet
- CLEEN
- continuous lower emissions, energy and noise
- CNEL
- community noise equivalent level
- CNG
- compressed natural gas
- CO
- carbon monoxide
- CPS
- cycles per second (Hz)
- CROR
- counter‐rotating open rotor
- CSP
- concentrating solar power
- CTL
- coal to liquid
D
- DD
- drag divergence
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