Aircraft trajectory optimization and contrails avoidance in the presence of winds

10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference 2010, ATIO 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sridhar, Banavar ^a   Ng, Hok K ^b   Chen, Neil Y ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; CLIMATE FORCINGS; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; NON-LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; PATH CONSTRAINT; POLICY MAKERS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; AVIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLIGHT PATHS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAVEL TIME;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878397766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-9139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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