Optimal symmetric flight with an intermediate vehicle model

DOI10.2514/3.19981MaRDI QIDQ3696971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. K. A. Menon, Henry J. Kelley, Eugene M. Cliff

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10919/106344

zbMATH Keywords

vehicle modelaltitude-speed-range-time optimizationOptimal flight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Control/observation systems governed by ordinary differential equations (93C15) General aerodynamics and subsonic flows (76G25)

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