Publications related to Nuclear pulse propulsion

Advancing spacecraft demisability through a novel composite bolt joint system: a step toward sustainable and safe space environments

Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo

From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...

2023

Flexural-tensegrity snapping tails for bio-inspired propulsion in fluids

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Claudio Boni

Many aquatic animals propel themselves by flapping their tails. Leveraging a recently proposed snapping cantilever beam based on the concept of flexural tensegrity, we propose a bio-inspired propulsion device. The design comprises a segmental beam with hol ...

ELSEVIER2022

Microscopic field theory for structure formation in systems of self-propelled particles with generic torques

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Elena Sesé Sansa

We derive a dynamical field theory for self-propelled particles subjected to generic torques and forces by explicitly coarse-graining their microscopic dynamics, described by a many-body Fokker-Planck equation. The model includes both intrinsic torques ind ...

AIP Publishing2022

Design of an intake and a thruster for an atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion system

Francesco Romano, Thomas Binderup Jensen

Challenging space missions include those at very low altitudes, where the atmosphere is the source of aerodynamic drag on the spacecraft, that finally defines the mission's lifetime, unless a way to compensate for it is provided. This environment is named ...

2022

Phase separation of self-propelled disks with ferromagnetic and nematic alignment

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Elena Sesé Sansa

We present a comprehensive study of a model system of repulsive self-propelled disks in two dimensions with ferromagnetic and nematic velocity alignment interactions. We characterize the phase behavior of the system as a function of the alignment and self- ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Active biomaterials for mechanobiology

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann

Active biomaterials offer novel approaches to study mechanotransduction in mammalian cells. These material systems probe cellular responses by dynamically modulating their resistance to endogenous forces or applying exogenous forces on cells in a temporall ...

2020

Self-Propulsion of Active Colloids via Ion Release: Theory and Experiments

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Samuel Sanchez

We study the self-propulsion of a charged colloidal particle that releases ionic species using theory and experiments. We relax the assumptions of thin Debye length and weak nonequilibrium effects assumed in classical phoretic models. This leads to a numbe ...

2020

Influence of Battery Models on the Optimal Design of the Propulsion System of a Hyperloop Capsule

Mario Paolone, Denis Tudor

The paper assesses the influence of equivalent circuit battery models on the optimal design of the propulsion system of an energy-autonomous Hyperloop capsule. By knowing a pre-determined payload to be transported along pre-determined trajectories, the pro ...

IEEE2020

Activity induced synchronization: Mutual flocking and chiral self-sorting

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Synchronization, the temporal coordination of coupled oscillators, allows fireflies to flash in unison, neurons to fire collectively, and human crowds to fall in step on the London millenium bridge. Here, we interpret active (or self-propelled) chiral micr ...

2019

On benchmarking of simulations of particle transport in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Francesca Maria Poli, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Javier García Hernández, Anna Teplukhina, Xiao Yuan

We report results of benchmarking of core particle transport simulations by a collection of codes widely used in transport modelling of tokamak plasmas. Our analysis includes formulation of transport equations, difference between electron and ion solvers, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Physics of Bubble-Propelled Microrockets

François Gallaire, Giacomo Gallino

A popular method to induce synthetic propulsion at the microscale is to use the forces created by surface-produced gas bubbles inside the asymmetric body of a catalytic swimmer (referred to in the literature as microrocket). Gas bubbles nucleate and grow w ...

2018

Evidence of Be-9 + p nuclear reactions during 2 omega(CH) and hydrogen minority ICRH in JET-ILW hydrogen and deuterium plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Alessandro Pau, Henri Weisen, Cristian Sommariva, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Federico Nespoli, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Daniel Scott Alessi, Davide Galassi, Julio Rodriguez, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Li Shuai, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, , , , , ,

Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of operational discharges. In addition, high plasma energy content, heat fluxes, neutron ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Simon Dandavino

With the growing capabilities of miniature components and systems, scientific and exploration missions making use of small spacecraft (

EPFL2014

A Collision Resilient Flying Robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Flying robots that can locomote efficiently in GPS-denied cluttered environments have many applications, such as in search and rescue scenarios. However, dealing with the high amount of obstacles inherent to such environments is a major challenge for flyin ...

John Wiley & Sons2014

Ubiquity of non-diffusive momentum transport in JET H-modes

Henri Weisen, Yann Camenen, Mikhail Maslov

A broad survey of the experimental database of neutral beam heated baseline H-modes and hybrid scenarios in the JET tokamak has established the ubiquity of non-diffusive momentum transport mechanisms in rotating plasmas. As a result of their presence, the ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2012