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Problems of the mathematical description of rocket engines as plants

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Mathematical models of liquid-propellant, nuclear, and electric rocket engines are presented that more fully describe thrust generation than the classical models do. The optimal control of engine thrust is analyzed within the framework of Mayer’s general variational problem. It is shown that the control of a rocket engine satisfying the necessary optimality conditions belongs to the boundary arc of the feasible control set between the point of maximum thrust and the point of maximum exhaust velocity

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  1. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Nesterova St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 03057

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 138–144, September–October 2012.

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Kiforenko, B.N. Problems of the mathematical description of rocket engines as plants. Int Appl Mech 48, 608–612 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-012-0543-9

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