Combat Optimization and Analysis Program - COAP, Volume 3: Programmer's Manual

Abstract

The report describes a generalized digital computer program for the simulation and/or optimization of arbitrarily defined vehicle flight paths. Two simultaneously coupled three-dimensional point mass trajectories about a rotating oblate planet having a multi-layered atmosphere may be employed. Levels of reduced complexity varying from the generalized problem to straightforward planar point mass, single vehicle, vacuum trajectories may be studied with the aid of the program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0735293

Entities

People

  • C. R. Glatt
  • D. S. Hague
  • Robert T. Jones

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Digital Computers
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight Paths
  • Grids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trajectories
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Science.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers