Designing the shape of a large scientific balloon

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 953-966

  Baginski, Frank ^a   Chen, Qi ^a   Waldman, Ilan ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axisymmetric membranes; Balloon shapes; Parallel shooting method

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SCIENTIFIC BALLOONS;

METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; DESIGN; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035499904     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0307-904X(01)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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1. Research and development in the field of high altitude plastic balloons
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3. Modeling ascent configurations of strained high altitude balloons
4. A mathematical model for the strained shape of a large scientific balloon at float altitude
5. Determination of the shape of a free balloon