Thermaling flight optimization

Authors

  • Duncan MacKinnon The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Training, Meteorology

Abstract

A number of authors have investigated the optimization of rate of climb in a thermal.  In this paper a systematic approach is presented based on an iterative mathematical optimization technique....

Author Biography

Duncan MacKinnon, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-11-17

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