Abstract: Fire risk in high-rise buildings is of special concern to the fire community, since it is crucial but still technically extremely challenging to significantly improve the current fire fighting capabilities when a calamity ...

Abstract: In this study we first develop a flight mechanics model for supercavitating vehicles, which is formulated to account for the dependence of the cavity shape from the past history of the system. ...

Abstract: This paper addresses practical issues associated with the numerical enforcement of constraints in flexible multibody systems, which are characterized by index-3 differential algebraic equations ...

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the parameters in mathematical models of complex systems from experimental observations; the methods and procedures that we develop are ...

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of computing optimal trajectories for rotorcraft systems. The vehicle is described through a flight mechanics model, and the optimal control problem is solved by discretizing the vehicle ...

Abstract: In this paper, the authors present a procedure for the global solution by the use of evolutionary algorithms of trajectory optimization and parameter estimation problems for rotorcraft vehicles. The proposed approach makes ...