DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OPTIMAL THRUST REVERSER USE FOR AN AIRCRAFT IN A PULL-UP MANEUVER.

Abstract

Pontryagin's Minimum Principle is applied to a two control optimization problem in which the effectiveness of a thrust reverser is evaluated for an aircraft in a pull-up maneuver. The aircraft is described by a set of nonlinear differential equations. A gradient technique is used to solve the resulting two point boundary value problem. Two performance criteria are used in determining the effectiveness of an optimal thrust reverser for an aircraft in a pull-up maneuver. The effectiveness was determined by comparing the loss of altitude in the pull-up for the optimal thrust case to a case in which zero thrust was used. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0825450

Entities

People

  • Harold L. Daniel

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Linear Differential Equations
  • Maneuvers
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Nonlinear Differential Equations

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Medical Imaging.