Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics

Zipfel revises his textbook for a two-semester graduate course for aerospace, operations research, or electrical engineering students. He covers the invariant modeling of flight dynamics and computer simulations of aerospace vehicles as a theory-and-praxis pair. His topics are mathematical concepts in modeling, frames and coordinate systems, the kinetics of translation and rotation, translational dynamics, attitude dynamics, perturbation equations, three-degrees-of-freedom simulation, five-degrees-of-freedom simulation, six-degrees-of-freedom simulation, and real-time applications. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)