Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging field which can revolutionize regional transport in the near future. KoriAir project aims to design a vehicle which is more efficient and quieter than current vehicles. This report presents the preliminary design solving those challenges. The resulting design is a two-vehicle configuration consisting of a lifting vehicle and a cruise vehicle. The lifting vehicle is a multicopter with vertical take-off and landing capabilities. The cruise vehicle design is based on a general aviation aircraft. After take-off, the coupled vehicles decouple, allowing the cruise vehicle to continue its mission before it couples in-air for landing. The report presents the preliminary design of two vehicles. In addition to that, a coupling mechanism with its control system is designed. To integrate well in the urban environment, noise generated by the vehicles is addressed. Infrastructural and operational aspects are also considered, with details about vertiport design and route planning presented.

Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) is an effective and non-intrusive flow measurement technique that is able to provide quantitative information of the full velocity field at a certain instant in time, by tracking each particle individually with high-speed cameras. This permits to have a very high precision in measuring the flow evolutions. The abundant time information can then be leveraged by reconstruction algorithms not only to bring the information into a Cartesian format, but also to increase the space resolution of the original measurements. This thesis aims to explore the enhancement of the Navier-Stokes based reconstruction method called VIC-TSA (Vortex-in-Cell with Time-Segment-Assimilation) through the implementation of Radial Basis Functions (RBF). Moreover, it investigates whether the incorporation of RBFs can enable VIC TSA to match or exceed the accuracy of the VIC+ method. The improvements are evaluated numerically with a synthetic flow field (Taylor-Green sine wave vortex lattice) and experimentally (flow over a bluff body) with a real Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT) experiment in the TU Delft W-Tunnel.