Friday, 23 May 2014

Differential Games



In the Directorate of Air Operational Research, I also studied air-to-air operations by the CF-18.  I examined a dog fight between two or more fighter aircraft.  I used a differential equation model based on the book by Rufus Isaacs Differential Games: A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization .  I solved the differential game using the Runge-Kutta method.  In this study, I built a simulation of many-on-one air combat.  I examined the relative merits of speed, evasive ability, fire power and number of aircraft on the potential outcome of the dog fight.  I found that the Runge-Kutta method to approximately solve a system of differential equations was very effective.

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