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AAE 50800 - Optimization In Aerospace Engineering


Credit Hours: 3.00. Formulation 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. Typically offered Spring.