6 articles in this issue
Mario Panelli,Antonio Smoraldi,Valeria De Simone,Francesco Battista
This paper presents a preliminary design tool for oriced hollow cathodes. Two physical models compose the tool: aplasma model and a thermal model. A time-independent, volume-averaged model has been developed to determineplasma properties in the emitter an... see more
Renato Volpe,Christian Circi,Giovanni Battista Palmerini
A challenging aspect regarding proximity operations such as on-orbit servicing, refuelling and dismissal is the selection of optimal trajectories. The path should be conveniently followed by making use of sensors and actuators available on-board Optical h... see more
Franco Mastroddi,Lorenzo Maria Travaglini,Stefania Gemma
The use of High Altitude and Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly significant in both military and civil missions as High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS). Since this class of aircraft is usually powered by solar ... see more
Alessio Nuti,Francesco Bertini,Vittorio Cipolla,Gianpietro Di Rito
The subject of the present paper is the design of an innovative fuselage mounted main landing gear, developed for a PrandtlPlane architecture civil transport aircraft with a capacity of about 300 passengers.The paper presents the conceptual design and a p... see more
Said Taileb,Maxime Reynaud,Ashwin Chinnayya,Florent Virot,Pascal Bauer
The multidimensional structure of mildly unstable detonations are examined by numerical computations. Thesephenomenon have grown in interest since the development of propulsion devices such as pulsed and rotating detonationengines. Rectangular, diagonal a... see more
Ibrahim Kaleel,Marco Petrolo,Erasmo Carrera
This paper presents numerical results concerning the nonlinear and failure analysis of fiber-reinforced composites. The micromechanical framework exploits a class of refined 1D models based on the Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF) having a variable kinema... see more