Thomas Planès

 BIOGRAPHY

2023 Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation and Aircraft Design, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse (France)

2022 PhD in Aerospace Sciences, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse (France)

2019 MSc in aeronautical and environmental engineering, Centrale Nantes, Nantes (France)

 RESEARCH AREAS

Sustainable Aviation

• Development of AeroMAPS, an open-source framework for performing multidisciplinary assessment of prospective scenarios for air transport
• Modeling of Air Transport System : air traffic, aircraft fleet including renewal, aircraft energy including several pathways of alternative energy carriers
• Modeling and assessment of climate and energy resources issues for air transport
• Integration of economics in terms of costs (Energy, Direct Operating Costs, Recurring and Non-Recurring Costs)
• Application to the simulation and evaluation of sustainable scenarios for air transport

Aircraft Design

• Contribution to the development of FAST-OAD, an open-source framework for performing rapid Overall Aircraft Design
• Development of a specific Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) module for FAST-OAD in order to estimate the environmental impacts of new aircraft architectures
• Modeling of aircraft systems (ECS, IPS, thermal management) and aircraft engines
• Sizing application to a bleedless and more efficient aircraft architecture

 TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Lectures and tutorials on sustainable aviation : climate impacts, levers of action, prospective scenarios (using AeroMAPS)
• Lectures and tutorials on overall aircraft design
• Lectures and tutorials on life cycle assessment applied to aviation
• Tutorials on climate and energy issues

 PUBLICATIONS

Research papers

Palanque, V., Planès, T., Pommier-Budinger, V., Budinger, M., & Delbecq, S. (2023). Piezoelectric resonant Ice Protection Systems – Part 2/2 : Evaluation of the benefits at the aircraft level. Under review.

Delbecq, S., Fontane, J., Gourdain, N., Planès, T., & Simatos, F. (2023). Sustainable aviation in the context of the Paris Agreement : a review of prospective scenarios and their technological mitigation levers. Progress in Aerospace Sciences.

Planès, T., Delbecq, S., Pommier-Budinger, V., & Bénard, E. (2023). Modeling and Design Optimization of an Electric Environmental Control System for Commercial Passenger Aircraft. Aerospace, 10(3), 260. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10030260

Planès, T., Delbecq, S., Pommier-Budinger, V., & Bénard, E. (2021). Simulation and evaluation of sustainable climate trajectories for aviation. Journal of Environmental Management, 295, 113079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113079

Conference papers

Salgas, A., Delbecq, S., Planès, T., Lafforgue, G., & Jézégou, J. (2023). Modelling and simulation of new regulatory measures for prospective scenarios for air transport. In Aerospace Europe Conference 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Pollet, F., Delbecq, S., Budinger, M., Moschetta, J.-M., & Planès, T. (2023). Environmental Life Cycle Assessments for the Design Exploration of Electric UAVs. In Aerospace Europe Conference 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Salgas, A., Planès, T., Delbecq, S., Simatos, F., & Lafforgue, G. (2022). Cost estimation of the use of low-carbon fuels in prospective scenarios for air transport. In AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum, National Harbor, United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2328

Salgas, A., Delbecq, S., Planès, T., & Lafforgue, G. (2022). Top Level Aircraft Requirements relaxation for a single-aisle aircraft : a case study on fleet-wide CO2 emissions and economic impacts. In AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum, National Harbor, United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-1357

Planès, T., Delbecq, S., Pommier-Budinger, V., Palanque, V. & Bénard, E. (2022). Sizing and optimization of a more electric aircraft integrating short-term incremental technologies. In 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Delbecq, S., Planès, T., Delavenne, M., Pommier-Budinger, V., & Joksimovic, A. (2022). Aircraft fleet models using a bottom-up approach for simulating aviation technological prospective scenarios. In 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Delbecq, S., Fontane, J., Gourdain, N., Mugnier, H., Planès, T., & Simatos, F. (2022). Aviation and climate : the state-of-the-art. In 56th Edition of the 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Toulouse, France.

Fabre, A., Planès, T., Delbecq, S., Pommier-Budinger, V., & Lafforgue, G. (2022). Life Cycle Assessment models for overall aircraft design. In AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum, San Diego, United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1028

Planès, T., Habrard, V., Delbecq, S., Pommier-Budinger, V. & Bénard, E. (2021). Thermal management system models for overall aircraft design. In AIAA AVIATION 2021 Forum, Virtual Event. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-2428

Others

Planès, T. (2022). Du dimensionnement de systèmes et d’architectures en conception avion à la simulation de scénarios prospectifs durables pour le transport aérien. PhD thesis, Université de Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO. https://www.theses.fr/2022ESAE0059

Delbecq, S., Fontane, J., Gourdain, N., Mugnier, H., Planès, T., & Simatos, F. (2022). Aviation and climate : a literature review. ISAE-SUPAERO. https://doi.org/10.34849/a66a-vv58

 CONTACT

Postal address : 10 avenue Edouard Belin - 31055 Toulouse
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 33 88 51
Mail : thomas.planes isae-supaero.fr