The purpose of this paper is to deal with the study of an innovative unmanned mission to Mars, which is aimed at acquiring a great amount of detailed data related to both Mars’ atmosphere and surface. The Mars surface exploration is conceived by means of a fleet of drones flying among a set of reference […]
Month: July 2016
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Ultralight amphibious PrandtlPlane: the final design”
The IDINTOS project, co-founded by the Regional Government of Tuscany (Italy), concerns the design of a ultralight amphibious PrandtlPlane and the manufacturing of a flying prototype. A consortium of universities and private companies participated to the project, coordinated by University of Pisa. The paper describes the general design of the aircraft, including aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structures, […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Aerodynamic optimization of a large PrandtlPlane configuration”
The purpose of this paper is to present design procedures and tools for the aerodynamic optimization of a large freighter aircraft with a PrandtlPlane configuration. Suitable optimization tools have been developed and are shortly described in the paper; sensitivity analyses for high speed flight conditions have been performed, and, also, low speed performances are evaluated […]