The minimal resistance problem in a class of non convex bodies

2017/07/19 by Mainini, Edoardo, Monteverde, Manuel, Oudet, Edouard +1
#FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.06274

Abstract

We characterize the solution to the Newton minimal resistance problem in a class of radial q-concave profiles. We also give the corresponding result for one-dimensional profiles. Moreover, we provide a numerical optimization algorithm for the general nonradial case.

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