Stability analysis of a tethered aerostat

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 705-715

  Lambert, Casey ^a   Nahon, Meyer ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TETHERLINES;

STABILITY ANALYSIS; TETHERED AEROSTATS;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0041379659     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3149     Document Type: Article

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