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Mechanical Engineering

Mark Ardema, Ph.D.

Mark ArdemaTitle:Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office:EC 233
Phone:408-554-4173
Fax:408-554-5474
Email:mardema@scu.edu
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Education:Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974
M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1965
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1964
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Recent Publications 

  • "Near-Optimal Energy Trajectories for Reusable Launch Vehicles", by H.C. Chou, Mark Ardema, and J. Bowles, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. W1, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1998, pp. 983-990.
  • "Minimum Heating Entry Trajectories for Reusable Launch Vehicles", by R. Windhorst, Mark
    Ardema, and J. Bowles, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 35, No. 5, Sept-Oct 1998, pp. 672-682.
  • "Singular Perturbation Trajectory Optimization of Supersonic Transports", by Mark Ardema and R. Windhorst, Actual Problems of Aviation and Aerospace Systems, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 21-31.
  • "Review of NASA Airship Programs, 1974-1982", by Mark Ardema, report prepared for the University of Stuttgart, June 1999.
  • "Singular Perturbation Trajectory Optimization of Supersonic Transports" by M. Ardema and R. Windhorst, Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, 1999.

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