Multidisciplinary design optimization of a small solid propellant launch vehicle using system sensitivity analysis

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-100

  Jodei, Jahangir ^a   Ebrahimi, Masoud ^a   Roshanian, Jafar ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analysis; Design; Multidisciplinary; Optimization; Sensitivity; System

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; LAUNCHING; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROPELLANTS; SOLID PROPELLANTS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS METHODS; COMPUTATION TIME; DESIGN VARIABLES; GRADIENT OPTIMIZATIONS; LAUNCH VEHICLES; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY; SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY EQUATIONS; SPACE LAUNCHES; SYSTEM; SYSTEM SENSITIVITIES; TRAJECTORY SIMULATIONS; TWO STAGES; VEHICLE DESIGNS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 59449106015     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0260-5     Document Type: Article

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