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Journal of Aerospace Engineering
EISSN: 1943-5525
ISSN: 0893-1321
Priority: 6
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Description: The Journal of Aerospace Engineering promotes the implementation and development of space and aerospace technologies and their transfer to other civil engineering applications. Topics of interest include aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, wi More ...
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Energy-Efficient Trajectories of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Flying through Thermals
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This study presents optimal energy-efficient flight trajectories of a generic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying through a vertical moving thermal cell. A two-dimensional point-mass model of a jet-engined UAV in the ...