Analogue Gravity and Trans-Atlantic Air Travel

Abstract

The problem of finding a minimal-time path for an aeroplane travelling in a wind flow has a simple formulation in terms of analogue gravity. This paper gives an elementary explanation with equations and some numerical solutions.

6 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX

References in corpus (3)

• Analogue Gravity
• Stationary Metrics and Optical Zermelo-Randers-Finsler Geometry
• The geometry of sound rays in a wind