Project Whirlwind. Volume 8. Mathematics

Abstract

The original mathematical work on the project was started in the early part of 1946, and constituted an investigation of methods of interpolation and integration to be used in the solution of the airplane stability control problem. There are no published reports on this study but the results were used in the programming of the ASCA problem which is reported in Note C-15 in Vol. 14. The project was later engaged in an investigation of the stability of the numerical solutions proposed for the airplane problem. This study included investigations of simple linear and non-linear systems, and considered the use of mathematical filters and energy conservation methods to avoid instability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1947
Accession Number
AD0896849

Entities

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Integral Equations
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Probability
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Stereolithography

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Operations Research
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.