Aerospace vehicle trajectory design and optimization within a multi-disciplinary environment

AIAA Paper

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 8141-8151

  Windhorst, Robert ^a   Galloway, Eric ^b   Lau, Eric ^b   Saunders, David ^b   Gage, Peter ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL MASS FLOW RATES; LIFT COEFFICIENTS; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; TRAJECTORY INTEGRATION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DRAG; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TRAJECTORIES; XML;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2942731695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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