Compensating for order variation in mesh refinement for direct transcription methods

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 147-158

  Betts, John T ^a   Biehn, Neil ^b   Campbell, Stephen L ^b   Huffman, William P ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS (DAE); IMPLICIT RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0034501604     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(00)00465-9     Document Type: Article

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