Lanchester Systems

Abstract

Lanchester sytems are systems of Ordinary Diffential Equations (ODE) where the state variables represent numbers of surviving combat units. They are named for F. W Lanchester (1916), who applied them to aerial combat in WWI. By that time ODE systems had already been used to model various biological phenomena.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA383409

Entities

People

  • Alan R. Washburn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Attrition
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Boats
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Firing Rate
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Ships
  • Simulations
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design