Bulletin of the American Physical Society
75th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference
Volume 67, Number 9
Monday–Friday, October 3–7, 2022;
Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan
The session times in this program are intended for Japan Standard Time zone in Tokyo, Japan (GMT+9)
Session EW1: Aerospace Plasmas
8:00 AM–9:30 AM,
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Sendai International Center
Room: Hagi
Chair: Mark Koepke, West Virginia University
Abstract: EW1.00003 : Electroaerodynamic aircraft propulsion*
8:30 AM–9:00 AM
Presenter:
Steven Barrett
(MIT)
Author:
Steven Barrett
(MIT)
Collaboration:
Nicolas Gomez-Vega, Arthur Brown, Nick Perovich, James Abel, David Perreault, Haofeng Xu, Thomas Sebastian and former MIT graduate students, undergraduate students, collaborators, and researchers who have contributed to the p
The first airplane with solid state propulsion was flown by MIT in 2018. This demonstrated that it is technically feasible for such a vehicle to sustain flight under purely solid state propulsion. However, the flights were short at ~10 seconds and ~60 meters, and carried no payload, suggesting a long path to any practical application.
This talk will describe the principles of operation and design tradeoffs involved in EAD propulsion for aircraft applications, and the technical challenges that need to be overcome. Previous and upcoming vehicle designs and their test flights will be described. In particular, advances in EAD thruster architectures and vehicle designs will be described that make possible small payloads to be carried for 10s of minutes by an airplane with solid state propulsion.
In the longer term for EAD to be practical significant changes in thruster architecture will be needed. This talk will also describe a high thrust density architecture which could enable VTOL and other applications. The theory of this architecture will be described, along with initial experiments and potential vehicle designs that could utilize it.
Finally, the talk will conclude with future challenges and opportunities for EAD propulsion.
*MIT Bose GrantNASA NIAC ProgramMIT Lincoln LaboratoryMHI
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