Research

Fuels, combustion and emissions

Hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels: economics, risk, well-to-pump emissions, combustion modelling and instability control.

1957 NACA diagram of a hydrogen fuel system on a Martin B-57B Canberra — 1957 NACA diagram of a hydrogen fuel system on a Martin B-57B Canberra. Photo: GRC · public domain · NASA Image and Video Library

Publications · 7

2026Advances in the Control of Combustion Instabilities: Historical Development, Mechanisms, and Future PerspectivesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

2026Application of digital twin technology for combustion and emissions of sustainable aviation fuelsWoSFuel

2026Hydrogen Fuel in Aviation: Quantifying Risks for a Sustainable FutureOAFuels

2026Modeling the combustion emissions of sustainable aviation fuel blendsOAWoSJournal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

2025The future of hydrogen fuel in aviation: Economic analysis of current applicationsWoSInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy

2022Analyzing well-to-pump emissions of electric and conventional jet fuel for aircraft propulsionWoSAircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

2019A Methodology for Calculating Emissions of An Aircraft Throughout Its Flight PhasesInternational Symposium on Electric Aviation and Autonomous Systems 2019

In progress · 1

—The hydrogen aviation ambition and implementation gap

The hydrogen aviation ambition and implementation gap

Graphical abstract: The hydrogen aviation ambition and implementation gap — Graphical abstractGraphical abstract, redrawn from the paper's own data: schedule slip rate of hydrogen-aviation programmes against three reference classes, with the study's three headline results. Data and code: CC BY 4.0, github.com/melihyildiz545/hydrogen-aviation-gap