A new look at the brachistochrone problem

DOI10.1007/BF01594128zbMath0459.49001MaRDI QIDQ1152102

Jacques Vlassenbroeck, René van Dooren

Publication date: 1980

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

brachistochrone problemparameter optimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Newton-type methods (49M15) Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization (90C31) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Nonlinear dynamics in mechanics (70K99)

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