Year: 2026
Type: software-paper
Abstract: jetfuelburn is a Python package that implements different methods for calculating the fuel burn of commercial passenger aircraft.It is designed to be used in the context of environmental impact assessment of air travel, aircraft performance analysis and optimisation.It supports calculations in physical units, allowing for quick conversion between imperial and metric units and dimensionality checks of function inputs.It is lightweight (<40kB packaged) and has only a single dependency (pint), therefore allowing for easy integration into WebAssembly kernels for interactive use in the browser.The package is open-source and distributed under a permissive MIT license.Interactive documentation is available, which allows users to compute fuel burn directly in the browser without the need to install the package locally.
DOI: 10.21105/joss.09280
Authors: Michael P. Weinold, Russell McKenna
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7121312776