Use of bifurcation and continuation methods for aircraft trim and stability analysis - A state-of-the-art

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 12670-12687

  Paranjape, Aditya ^a,c,d   Sinhat, Nandan Kumar ^b,c   Ananthkrishnan, Narayan ^a,c,d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c IIT Bombay Campus ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

AIRCRAFT ROLL COUPLING; AIRCRAFT TRIM; EXTENDED BIFURCATION ANALYSIS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34250860652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-1051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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