Nov 27, 2024 | News
The IPROP project recently marked a milestone with a partner meeting hosted by the CNRS collaborators, the Fluid Mechanics Institute of Toulouse (IMFT UMR 5502) and the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP UMR 7648). Over two days, participants reviewed progress achieved in...
Nov 6, 2024 | News
The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, “Guglielmo Marconi” of University of Bologna and the Department of Mathematics, MOX – Modelling and Scientific Computing of Politecnico di Milano presented IPROP theoretical and numerical modeling...
Oct 15, 2024 | News
Giuseppe Calió, a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Mathematics (DMAT), and Fabio Ragazzi, a PhD student at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, both members of the IPROP research team, participated in the 27th International Plasma...
Oct 10, 2024 | News
A novel design technique for airships featuring ion-thrusters has been presented at the 34th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences conference #ICAS2024, by IPROP project team at PoliMi-DAER. Prof. Carlo E.D. Riboldi, prof. Stefano Cacciola...
Oct 8, 2024 | News
An atmospheric EHD thruster has been tested in a wind tunnel by the PoliMi laboratory group of the IPROP project, simulating low speed flight conditions and comparing the measurements with a theoretical model. The results, on top of validating the theory, show an...
Oct 1, 2024 | News
In a recently published journal paper on MDPI Aerospace, the IPROP team at DAER-PoliMi has presented a design methodology for including ion-plasma thrusters on large stratospheric airships. Among the features of this technique is an accurate employment of the...
