Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2009)

Algorithm Issues and Challenges Associated with the Development of Robust CFD Codes.- Flight Path Optimization at Constant Altitude.- A survey on the Newton problem of optimal profiles.- Innovative Rotor Blade Design Code.- Fields of Extremals and Sufficient Conditions for the Simplest Problem of the Calculus of Variations in -Variables.- A Framework for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization.- Optimal Motions of Multibody Systems in Resistive Media.- Instationary Heat-Constrained Trajectory Optimization of a Hypersonic Space Vehicle by ODE#x2013;PDE-Constrained Optimal Control.- Variational Approaches to Fracture.- On the Problem of Synchronization of Identical Dynamical Systems: The Huygens#x2019;s Clocks.- Best wing system: an exact solution of the Prandtl#x2019;s problem.- Numerical simulation of the dynamics of boats by a variational inequality approach.- Concepts of Active Noise Aircraft Cockpits Reduction Employed in High Noise Level.- Lekhnitskii#x2019;s Formalism for Stress Concentrations Around Irregularities in Anisotropic Plates: Solutions for Arbitrary Boundary Conditions.- Best Initial Conditions for the Rendezvous Maneuver.- Commercial Aircraft Design for Reduced Noise and Environmental Impact.- Variational Approach to the Problem of the Minimum Induced Drag of Wings.- Plastic Hinges in a Beam.- Problems of Minimal and Maximal Aerodynamic Resistance..- Shock Optimization for Airfoil Design Problems.- Differential Games Treated by a Gradient#x2013;Restoration Approach.- Interval Methods for Optimal Control.- Application of Optimisation Algorithms to Aircraft Aerodynamics.- Different levels of Optimization in Aircraft Design.- Numerical and Analytical Methods for Global Optimization.- The Aeroservoelasticity Qualification Process in Alenia.- Further Steps towards Quantitative Conceptual Aircraft Design.- Some Plebeian Variational Problems.