Continuous descent operations in high throughput environment

• Main Author: Chan, Yong Cheng
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Flight simulation; DRNTU::Engineering::Industrial engineering::Operations research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60252
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This report attempted to simulate the fuel-minimal descent and approach trajectory of a single B747-400 aircraft under ISA conditions. The aircraft is modelled as a point-mass model with parameters taken from the BADA database of EUROCONTROL. The Hermite-Simpson method is used to discretize the opti...