Thermal characteristics and output power performances analysis of solar powered stratospheric airships

D Xing, Q Dai, C Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermal characteristics and output power performances are important factors to be
considered in the design and operation of long endurance stratospheric airships. The …

Forced convection heat transfer for stratospheric airship involved flight state

H Pei, B Kong, Y Jiang, H Shi - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Forced convection heat transfer is a significant factor for the thermal control of a
stratospheric airship. However, most of researches were conducted without considering the …

Analysis of the thermodynamical property of super-pressure balloons

J Wei, R Ma, X Hou, D Zhen, H Tan - Acta Mechanica, 2019 - Springer
Super-pressure balloons are closed structures with periodical gores and are more stable
than the traditional zero-pressure balloons. They are regarded as aerostats which can stay …

Multidisciplinary design optimization of stratospheric airship

MI Alam - 30th Congress of the international council of the …, 2016 - hal.science
This paper describes a methodology for shape optimization of the envelope of an airship for
long endurance missions at stratospheric altitudes. Gertler Series-58 shape generation …