Annual meeting in Toulouse on 20th and 21st November 2024
The IPROP project recently marked a milestone with a partner meeting hosted by the CNRS collaborators. Over two days, participants reviewed progress achieved in the first year of project implementation under the coordination of Prof. Marco Belan from Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Aerospace Science and Technology.
IPROP Modeling of Corona Discharges for Ionic Propulsion at IEEE ICD 2024
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 at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD).
IPROP young researchers at the International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics
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
IPROP project presented at the ICAS2024
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…
IPROP on the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
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.
IPROP methodology on MDPI Aerospace journal
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…