PARTNER:

Jim works in the field of sustainable aviation as a principal research engineer within the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Associate Director for the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER), a leading aviation cooperative research organization, and an FAA/NASA/Transport Canada-sponsored Center of Excellence. His work focuses on mitigating the environmental impacts of aviation through alternative fuels for aviation, aircraft design, and operations.


Alternative Fuels for Aviation:

Jim is leading research sponsored by the FAA, AFRL, and TRB to quantify the potential of alternative fuels to reduce the life cycle environmental impact of aviation. The life cycle of a fuel encompasses recovery and transportation of the feedstock to the production facility, processing of these materials into fuels, transportation and distribution of the fuel to the aircraft tank, and finally, the combustion of the fuel in the aircraft. The research has been focused on fuels that are compatible with today’s fleet of aircraft. Within PARTNER Project 17, the technical feasibility of alternative fuels was evaluated while PARTNER Project 28 focuses on environmental and economic feasibility of alternative fuels. ACRP 02-07 considered the feasibility of alternative fuels from the airport perspective.


Aircraft Design for the Environment:

Jim was co-chief engineer for the Silent Aircraft Initiative, a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University. The Silent Aircraft project had the bold aim of discovering ways to reduce aircraft noise dramatically, to the point where it would be virtually unnoticeable to people outside the airport perimeter in a typical built-up area. He has followed up the work of the Silent Aircraft Initiative by participating in a NASA-sponsored N+3 project wherein he worked with a team to design Hybrid Wing Body aircraft for fuel efficiency, low noise, and reduced emissions. This work is considering both conventional jet fuel and cryogenic methane as the fuel for the aircraft.


Fundamental Research on Jet Noise:

Jim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2004. His dissertation focused on the generation of noise by large turbulence structures within a high-speed jet. The experiments presented therein show the intimate relationship between the dynamics of turbulence and the creation of sound. His work is the first to visualize the time evolution of large turbulence during the creation of sound within a high Reynolds number, high-speed jet. This research was conducted at the Gas Dynamics and Turbulence Laboratory.


Publications on Alternative Fuels and Emissions:

  1. 1.Hileman J.I., Donohoo, P.E., and Stratton, R.W., “Energy Content and Alternative Jet Fuel Viability” accepted to Journal of Propulsion and Power, April 2010.

  2. 2.Stratton, R.W., Wong, H.M., and Hileman, J.I., “Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Alternative Jet Fuels, ” Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (Report No. PARTNER-COE-2010-001), 2010. PDF FILE

  3. 3.Hileman, J., Ortiz, D., Bartis. J., Wong, H.M., Donohoo, P., Weiss, M., and Waitz, I., Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels, jointly published by the RAND Corporation (Report No. TR-554-FAA) and the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (Report No. PARTNER-COE-2009-001), 2009. PDF FILE

  4. 4.Aviation Fuel Life Cycle Assessment Working Group (Allen, D.T., Allport, C., Atkins, K., Cooper, J.S., Dilmore, R.M., Draucker, L.C., Eickmann, K.E., Gillen, J.C., Gillette, W., Griffin, W.M., Harrison III, W.E., Hileman, J.I., Ingham, J.R., Kimler III, F.A., Levy, A., Murphy, C.F., O’Donnell, M.J., Pamplin, D., Schivley, G., Skone, T.J., Strank, S.M., Stratton, R.W., Taylor, P.H., Thomas, V.M., Wang, M., and Zidow, T.), “Framework and Guidance for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Footprints of Aviation Fuels,” Air Force Research Laboratory Technical Report, AFRL-RZ-WP-TR-2009-2206, April 2009. PDF FILE

  5. 5.Whitefield, P.D., Lobo, P., Hagen, D.E., Timko, M.T., Miake-Lye, R.C., Taylor, C., Ratliff, G., Lukachko, S., Sequeira, C., Hileman, J.I., Waitz, I.A., Webb, S., Thrasher, T.G., Ohsfeldt, M.R., Kaing, H.K., and Essama, S.C., "Summarizing and Interpreting Aircraft Gaseous and Particulate Emissions Data," Airport Cooperative Research Program Report Number 9, Transportation Research Board, 2008. PDF FILE

  6. 6.Maurice, L., Alonso, J., Marais, K., Hileman, J., Waitz, I., “Greening U.S. Aviation,” United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15), Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009. PDF FILE

  7. 7.Hileman, J.I., Wong, H.M., Ortiz, D., Brown, N., Maurice, L., Rumizen, M., “The Feasibility and Potential Environmental Benefits of Alternative Fuels for Commercial Aviation,” Proceedings of the 26th Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences, Anchorage Alaska, September, 2008 PDF FILE

  8. 8.Additional information available from PARTNER Project 28 website


Publications on Aircraft Design:


  1. 1.Hileman, J.I., Drela, M., Spakovszky, Z.S., and Sargeant, M., “Airframe Design for ‘Silent,’ Fuel Efficient Aircraft,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 3, May-June 2010. PDF FILE

  2. 2.Sargeant, M.A., Hynes, T.P., Graham, W.R., Hileman, J.I., Drela, M., Spakovszky, Z.S., “Stability in Blended Wing Body Type Aircraft with Centerbody Leading Edge Carving,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 3, May-June 2010. PDF FILE

  3. 3.Hall, C., Schwartz, E., Hileman, J., “Assessment of Technologies for the Silent Aircraft Initiative,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, No.6, November-December 2009. PDF FILE

  4. 4.Hileman, J., Spakovszky, Z., de la Rosa Blanco, E., Hall, C., Law, T., and Crichton, D., “Design Trade Considerations in Noise, Fuel Burn, and Technological Risk for Quiet Aircraft,” Presentation to the 2007 SAE Aerotech Congress and Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, September 18, 2007. PDF FILE

  5. 5.Hileman, J., “Airframe Design Considerations for a ‘Silent Aircraft’," Invited Presentation at NASA Langley Workshop on Revolutionary Aircraft for Quiet Communities, Langley, VA, July 24, 2007. PDF FILE

  6. 6.Liu, Y., Dowling, A.P., Hileman, J.I., Quayle, A.R., “Surface Roughness Noise Prediction for Silent Aircraft eXperimental Design SAX-40,” AIAA Paper 2008-0045, 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2008.

  7. 7.Jones, A., Willcox, K., and Hileman, J., "Distributed Multidisciplinary Optimization of Aircraft Design and Operations for Low Noise," AIAA 2007-1856, 3rd AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialist Conference, April 2007.

  8. 8.Hileman, J., Spakovszky, Z., Drela, M. and Sargeant, M., “Airframe Design for ‘Silent Aircraft’,” AIAA 2007-0453, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2007. PDF FILE

  9. 9.Hileman, J., Reynolds, T., de la Rosa Blanco, E., Law, T., and Thomas, S., “Development of Approach Procedures for Silent Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 2007-0451, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2007. PDF FILE

  10. 10.Crichton, D., de la Rosa Blanco, E., Law, T., and Hileman, J., “Design and Operation for Ultra Low Noise Take-Off,” AIAA 2007-0456, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2007. PDF FILE

  11. 11.Sakaliyski, K. D., Hileman, J. I., Spakovszky, Z. S., ”Aero-Acoustics of Perforated Drag Plates for Quiet Transport Aircraft,” AIAA 2007-1032, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2007.

  12. 12.Diedrich, A., Tan, D., Hileman, J., Spakovszky, Z. and Willcox, K., “Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization of the Silent Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 2006-1323, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2006.

  13. 13.Hileman, J., Spakovszky, Z., Drela, M., and Sargeant, M., “Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Three-Dimensional Design for a ‘Silent’ Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 2006-0241, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2006. PDF FILE


Publications on Environmental Performance Metrics:


  1. 1.Hileman, J.I., Katz, J.B., Mantilla, J., Fleming, G., “Payload Fuel Energy Efficiency as a Metric for Aviation Environmental Performance,” Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences, Anchorage Alaska, September, 2008. PDF FILE

  2. 2.Hileman, J., “The Next Generation Air Traffic System: Metrics,” Invited Presentation to Annual UC Symposium on Aviation Noise & Air Quality, Palm Springs, CA, March 4, 2008. PDF FILE


Publications on Jet Noise:

  1. 1.Hileman, J., Thurow, B., Caraballo, and Samimy, M., “Large-scale Structure Evolution and Sound Emission in High-Speed Jets: Real-time Visualization with Simultaneous Acoustic Measurements,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 544, pp. 277-307, 2005. PDF FILE

  2. 2.Hileman, J., Large-Scale Structures and Noise Generation in High-Speed Jets, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbus, OH, 2004. PDF FILE

  3. 3.Hileman, J., “Large-Scale Turbulence Structures and Noise Generation in High-Speed Jets,” Invited Seminar at Southampton University Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), Southampton, United Kingdom, June 2006. PDF FILE

  4. 4.Kastner, J., Samimy, M., Hileman, J. and Freund, J., “Comparison of Noise Sources in High and Low Reynolds Number High Speed Jets,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 2251-2258, October 2006. PDF FILE

  5. 5.Hileman, J. and Samimy, M., “Mach Number Effects on Jet Noise Sources and Radiation to Shallow Angles,” AIAA Journal, Vol.44, No.8, August 2006. PDF FILE

  6. 6.Samimy, M., Adamovich, I., Webb, B., Kastner, J. Hileman, J., Keshav, S., and Palm, P., “Development and Characterization of Plasma Actuators for High-Speed Jet Control,” Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 37, pp. 577-588, 2004. PDF FILE

  7. 7.Hileman, J., Thurow, B., and Samimy, M., “Development and Evaluation of a 3-D Microphone Array to Locate Individual Acoustic Sources in a High Speed Jet,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 276, pp. 649-669, September 22, 2004. PDF FILE

  8. 8.Hileman, J., and Samimy, M., “Effects of Vortex Generating Tabs on Noise Sources in an Ideally Expanded Mach 1.3 Jet,” International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-63, 2003. PDF FILE

  9. 9.Hileman, J., Thurow, B., and Samimy, M., “Exploring Noise Sources Using Simultaneous Acoustic Measurements and Real-Time Flow Visualizations in Jets,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 2382-2392, December 2002. PDF FILE

  10. 10.Thurow, B., Hileman, J., Samimy, M., and Lempert, W., “A technique for real-time visualization of flow structure in high-speed flows,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 3449-3452, October 2002. PDF FILE

  11. 11.Hileman, J. and Samimy, M., “On Turbulence Structures and the Acoustic Far-Field of a Mach 1.3 Jet,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 1716-1727, September 2001. PDF FILE