Accession Number:

AD0641011

Title:

NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE DISTANCE FROM A POINT TO AN ELLIPSOID,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABS ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Celmins,A.
• Sacco,W.

Report Date:

1966-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

A problem of current interest in weapon evaluation studies at the Ballistic Research Laboratories requires an efficient method for computing the distance from an arbitrary point in space to a given ellepsoid. Two techniques for performing the calculation are proposed in the report. Author

Descriptors:

• (*NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• *DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING)
• (*RANGE(DISTANCE)
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS)
• ELLIPSOIDS
• GEOMETRY
• BALLISTICS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Ballistics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE