About¶

Authors¶

The jetfuelburn package was developed by Michael Weinold under the supervision of Prof. Russell McKenna as part of his doctoral research at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

Contributors¶

Contributor	Role	Contributions	Date
Noe Marty	Semester Project Student at ETH Zurich	Comparison of Methods	2025-2026
Olivier Schnyder	Semester Project Student at ETH Zurich	Benchmarking of Reduced-Order Methods	2026

Citing the Tool¶

To cite the use of jetfuelburn in academic work, please use the main publication:

Weinold and McKenna, (2026). JetFuelBurn: A Python package for calculating fuel burn of commercial aircraft. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(117), 9280, doi:10.21105/joss.09280.

BibTeX Entry

@article{weinold2026jetfuelburn,
    title={JetFuelBurn: A Python package for calculating fuel burn of commercial aircraft},
    author={Weinold, Michael P and McKenna, Russell},
    journal={Journal of Open Source Software},
    volume={11},
    number={117},
    pages={9280},
    year={2026},
    doi={10.21105/joss.09280}
}

Publications using the Tool¶

Year	Authors	Title
2025	Weinold et al.	Estimating Fuel Consumption of Commercial Aircraft
2026	Weinold and McKenna	JetFuelBurn: A Python package for calculating fuel burn of commercial aircraft

Funding¶

Funding was provided by the Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse through the "WISER" Flagship Project (PFFS-21-72). Michael Weinold gratefully acknowledges the support of the Swiss Study Foundation.

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License¶

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