An optimal strategy for persistent contrail avoidance

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Campbell, Scot E ^a,b   Neogi, Natasha A ^a,b   Bragg, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DATA; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; BURN MODEL; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; FUEL-OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PATH-PLANNING; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PLANNING HORIZONS; POTENTIAL THREATS; QUADRATIC COST FUNCTIONS; QUADRATIC COSTS; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; TIME STEP SIZE; VEHICLE ACCELERATION;

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; NAVIGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TRAJECTORIES;

FUELS;

EID: 78249267386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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