Neutral energy cycles for a vehicle in sinusoidal and turbulent vertical gusts

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages 10492-10502

  Lissaman, P B S ^a,b   Patel, C K ^b,c  

^a Da Vinci Ventures   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTIONS; FLIGHT MANEUVER; NEUTRAL ENERGY CYCLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 34250883833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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