Basic small fixed wing aircraft sizing optimizing endurance

2007 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-325

  Retana, Ezequiel Reyes ^a   Rodríguez Cortés, Hugo ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DURABILITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; GAS DYNAMICS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANTS; TECHNOLOGY; WINGS;

AIRCRAFT SIZING; ELECTRIC POWERS; FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NON-LINEAR PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 49749098547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEEE.2007.4345033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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