Simulation and optimization methods for assessing the impact of aviation operations on the environment

27th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2010, ICAS 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 5033-5043

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

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aviation operations; Contrails; Environmental impact; Models; Simulation and optimization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; AVIATION OPERATIONS; CONTRAILS; FLEXIBLE SIMULATION; OXIDES OF NITROGEN; REDUCING EMISSIONS; SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; AVIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84878489314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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