Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion

Haofeng Xu, Yiou He, Kieran L. Strobel, Christopher K. Gilmore, Sean P. Kelley, Cooper C. Hennick, Thomas Sebastian, Mark R. Woolston, David J. Perreault & Steven R. H. Barrett
Nature 563, pp. 532–535, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0707-9

Electric Aircraft

Energy, Economic, and Environmental Prospects of All-Electric Aircraft

Andreas W. Schäfer, Steven R.H. Barrett, Khan Doyme, Lynnette M. Dray, Albert R. Gnadt, Rod Self, Aidan O’Sullivan, Athanasios P. Synodinos, and Antonio J. Torija
Accepted for publication in Nature Energy.

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

Electroaerodynamic Thruster Performance as a Function of Altitude and Flight Speed

C.K. Gilmore and S.R.H. Barrett
AIAA Journal 56 (3), pp. 1105-1117, 2018.
http://doi.org/10.2514/1.J056138

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

Electro-aerodynamic thrust for fixed-wing aircraft propulsion

Christopher K. Gilmore
MIT Ph.D. Thesis Supervised by Prof. Steven Barrett, 2016

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

A hybridized discontinuous Galerkin formulation for modeling electrohydrodynamic thrusters

Andrew Dexter
MIT S.M. Thesis Supervised by Prof. Steven Barrett, 2015

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

Electrohydrodynamic thrust density using positive corona induced ionic winds for in-atmosphere propulsion

Christopher K. Gilmore and Steven R. H. Barrett
Proceedings of the Royal Society A 471 20140912, 2015
doi: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0912

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

On the performance of electrohydrodynamic propulsion

Kento Masuyama and Steven R. H. Barrett
Proceedings of the Royal Society A 469: 20120623, 2013
doi: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0623

Electroaerodynamic Propulsion

Performance characterization of electrohydrodynamic propulsion devices

Kento Masuyama
MIT S.M. Thesis Supervised by Prof. Steven Barrett, 2012

MIT Electric Aircraft Initiative

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