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J. V. Breakwell

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38

Publications

2K

Citations

22

H-Index

1956

Active since

Affiliations

Stanford University(Current)

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Lockheed Martin (United States)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Lockheed Martin (Canada)

J. V. Breakwell is an author at Stanford University specializing in engineering, space engineering, and propulsion.

Top concepts

EngineeringSpace EngineeringPropulsionAerodynamicsTrajectory OptimizationPhysicsGeodesyStabilityFlight ControlSpace Missions

Publications per year

1956–1994

38

Publications

38

Optimization and Control of Nonlinear Systems Using the Second Variation

J. V. Breakwell, Jason L. Speyer, Arthur E. Bryson · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Series A Control · 1963 · 228 citations

The ?Halo? family of 3-dimensional periodic orbits in the Earth-Moon restricted 3-body problem

J. V. Breakwell, John V. Brown · Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy · 1979 · 206 citations

Earth-moon System, Geometry, Celestial Mechanic +2

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling for arbitrary motions

John W. Edwards, Holt Ashley, J. V. Breakwell · AIAA Journal · 1979 · 191 citations

Unsteady Flow, Engineering, Aerospace Engineering +4

The Optimization of Trajectories

J. V. Breakwell · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · 1959 · 133 citations

Numerical Analysis, Engineering, Flight Reserve Optimization +19

On the conjugate point condition for the control problem

J. V. Breakwell, Ho Yu-Chi · International Journal of Engineering Science · 1965 · 116 citations

Mathematical Control Theory, Controllability, Conjugate Point Condition +1

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