Experiments with the Airship “Mediterranean” II

High Maneuverability Lenticular Airship

This paper presents and describes a new lenticular shaped airship that allows 3D omnidirectional movements. The airship is intended to be part of a cooperative aerial system based in the synergy between an airship and a group of micro-quad rotors capable of long time missions as environmental, biodiversity monitoring, WiSAR missions, road monitoring, detection of forest fires, etc. The emphasis...

Project AURORA: Infrastructure and flight control experiments for a robotic airship

Project AURORA aims at the development of unmanned robotic airships capable of autonomous flight over user-defined locations for aerial inspection and environmental monitoring missions. In this article, the authors report a successful control and navigation

Turbulence Modeling Challenges in Airship

Turbulent separated flows around an airship-like geometry (a prolate spheroid 6:1) are investigated using three turbulence modelings based on statistical and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approaches. The turbulence models used in the simulations are a standard high Reynolds k–ε model, a Smagorinsky LES model and a variational multiscale LES one. The flow of interest is characterized by a relative...

Google Generation II: web behaviour experiments with the BBC

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on continuing research undertaken on the way the Google Generation behave on the internet and to compare this with an earlier highly publicised study by the paper’s authors. Design/methodology/approach – This research use a televised practical experiment and a remote web global test incorporating search, working memory and multi-tasking experimen...

Modern Educational Experiments, II