3 credits
Fall 2022 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionFormulation of optimization problems encountered in aerospace engineering. Minima of functions and functionals, necessary conditions, calculus of variations, control formulation, two-point boundary-value problems. Applications to typical problems in aerospace engineering, such as optimal launch, minimum time to climb, maximum range, and optimal space trajectories.
Course AAE 508 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.