Ionic PROPulsion in atmosphere

INNOVATE, PROPEL, SOAR:

ionic air-breathing propulsion exploring new horizons for aerospace

IPROP on APRE – Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea Magazine

by | Feb 11, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

The IPROP project has been featured in the ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป of APRE Magazine, thanks to the collaboration with Fondazione Politecnico di Milano. The full edition here....

IPROP: A preliminary sizing of low- altitude airship including ion-plasma thrusters

by | Jan 16, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

A novel design technique, where an airship featuring ion-plasma thrusters is sized for a low-altitude demonstration mission has been published on ICAS 2024 โ€œ34th...

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by | Jan 7, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

Interesting progress has been made on the IPROP project in 2024, pushing the boundaries of ionic thruster technology for atmospheric and stratospheric applications....

Exploring the potential of electro-aerodynamic (EAD) thrusters and Performance Enhancement of EAD Thrusters With Nonuniform Emitters Array

by | Dec 17, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

The Politecnico of Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER), latest experimental campaign, within the IPROP project, focuses on optimizing EAD...

The IPROP Project Spotlighted on the DEEPSYNC Platform

by | Dec 4, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

The IPROP project has been prominently featured on the DEEPSYNC platform, a collaborative initiative under the EIC Communities program. DEEPSYNC is designed to gather...

Annual meeting in Toulouse on 20th and 21st November 2024

by | Nov 27, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

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...

IPROP Modeling of Corona Discharges for Ionic Propulsion at IEEE ICD 2024

by | Nov 6, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, โ€œGuglielmo Marconiโ€ of University of Bologna and the Department of Mathematics, MOX โ€“ Modelling...

IPROP young researchers at the International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics

by | Oct 15, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

Giuseppe Caliรณ, a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of Mathematics (DMAT), and Fabio Ragazzi, a PhD student at Alma Mater Studiorum โ€“ Universitร  di...

IPROP project presented at the ICAS2024ย 

by | Oct 10, 2024 | News | 0 Comments

A novel design technique for airships featuring ion-thrusters has been presented at the 34th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences...

SUMMARY

This project aims to bring ionic air-breathing propulsive systems beyond the pioneering phase, exploring their capabilities and improving their performance. Non-thermal plasma for atmospheric propulsion is a subject of recent investigations: model airplanes and vertical lifters have recently flown with this type of propulsion, but the potential of this technology is much higher. Many open aspects in this field deserve to be investigated, from fundamental research on ion production to geometric optimization of electrodes and integration of propulsion systems in existing aircrafts.

DURATION OF THE PROJECT

48 MONTHS

START OF THE PROJECT

01.11.2023

END OF THE PROJECT

31.10.2027

THE NETWORK OF PARTNERS

  1. POLIMI, Politecnico di Milano. Milano, Italy.
  2. UNIBO, Alma Mater Studiorum – Universitร  di Bologna. Bologna, Italy.
  3. KIT, Karlsruhe Institut Fuer Technologie. Karlsruhe, Germany.
  4. VKI, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.
  5. ISAE Supaero, Insitut Superieur de lโ€™Aeronautique et de lโ€™Espace. Toulouse, France.
  6. CNRS, Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique CNRS. Paris, France.
  7. AERONORD, Aeronord di Enzo Cisaro & C. s.a.s. Milano, Italy.
  8. TUD, Technische Universitaet Dresden. Dresden, Germany.