Special Issue "Micro Power Technologies for Air and Space Vehicles"
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 2573
Special Issue Editors

Interests: aerospace propulsion; energy systems; propulsive systems; fluid machinery; applied fluid dynamics; combustion
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Interests: aerospace propulsion; active flow control; micro thruster; plasma simulation

Interests: turbomachinery; plasma; combustion; material science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micro power technology has great potential to be enabled in space propulsion systems, i.e., in primary propulsion as well as precision pointing and orbital maneuvering. Moreover, micro power systems enable sensors and actuators, which can be easily integrated to form intelligent onboard systems for both micro unmanned air vehicles and small satellite platforms. These advancements are the result of significant experimental and modeling efforts, as well as technology demonstration missions. This Special Issue aims to seek the high-quality papers from academics and industry-related researchers in the areas of power technology at the micro scale for propulsion systems applied to air and space vehicles, e.g.:
- High-performing micro power technology, assessment of existing technologies, and development of breakthrough technologies
- Micropropulsion systems, thermochemical propulsion, electric propulsion, hybrid propulsion, MEMS technologies
- Microfluidics, microcombustion, and free molecular flows
- Micro actuators
- Numerical techniques and computational fluid dynamics
- Small satellite platforms and micro UAVs
Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia De Giorgi
Prof. Dr. Manish Jugroot
Dr. Pénélope Leyland
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MEMS
- microfluidics
- small satellite
- microcombustion
- microactuators
- micro UAV