Multidisciplinary design optimization of an electric-powered unmanned air vehicle

Aircraft Design

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Batill, Stephen M ^a   Stelmack, Marc A ^a   Qing Yu, Xiong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONCURRENT SUBSPACE DESIGN (CSD); ELECTRIC-POWERED UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0032661350     PISSN: 13698869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8869(99)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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