Ramatoulie Bah
Shayla R. Brooks
Dana Brown
Linwood Creekmore
Torreon N. Creekmore
Vincent Augustus Davis
Peter Eley
Danielle Graves
Paula Harrell
Golar Newby
Elizabeth Rascoe
Carl W. Seward
Eunice Smith
Rodney Stewart
Nelson Veale
Jordan Williams

Danielle Graves
email: dcgraves@mail.ecsu.edu

Mentor: Falcon Rankins
Internship: UnIPhy-REU Program, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
Title: The Analysis of Fuel Optimal Periodic Trajectories

In this research, conventional aircraft were flown on periodic cruise trajectories using an optimization program to determine if flying periodically is more fuel efficient than flying steady state. This research also included the development of an analysis package using MATLAB. The analysis package was used to carefully examine the results from the optimization program.