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Optimal Flight Planning for a Jet Aircraft

In: Case Studies in Operations Research

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  • Harris McClamroch

    (University of Michigan)

  • Taeyoung Lee

    (George Washington University)

Abstract

This chapter formulates a flight optimization problem to characterize the optimal flight of a jet aircraft subject to mission constraints and constraints that arise from the basic physics of flight of the aircraft. A hierarchical optimization approach is suggested: a flight plan is first developed, specified by way points and segments of helical paths between these waypoints, that meet the mission constraints; then an optimal steady flight problem is formulated and solved for each of the helical flight path segments. The required background in flight physics is summarized and optimal flight conditions for several categories of steady flight are described. Finally, a specific fuel optimal flight optimization problem for an example of a jet aircraft is introduced as a case study. The hierarchical optimization approach is followed and a fuel optimal flight plan is obtained and its flight performance is analyzed.

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  • Harris McClamroch & Taeyoung Lee, 2015. "Optimal Flight Planning for a Jet Aircraft," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Katta G. Murty (ed.), Case Studies in Operations Research, edition 127, chapter 15, pages 355-390, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4939-1007-6_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6_15
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