Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics, Fourth Edition unifies all aspects of flight dynamics for the efficient development of aerospace simulations. It provides the reader with a complete set of tools to build, program, and execute these simulations. Unlike other books, it uses tensors for modeling flight dynamics in a form invariant under coordinate transformations. For implementation, the tensors are converted to matrices, resulting in compact computer code.
In the first part, the equations of motion are derived with three-, five-, and six-degrees of freedom (DoF), using the...