John T. Betts

5.8k citations
54 papers · 4.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 18
Topics
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (23 papers)Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems (14 papers)Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (13 papers)

In The Last Decade

John T. Betts

54 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Survey of Numerical Methods for Trajectory Optimization19982026200720161998201050010001.5k

Peers

John T. Betts
Comparison fields: 5 of 120
  • Aerospace Engineering 2.5k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 1.1k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 776
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 630
  • Numerical Analysis 520
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Fields of papers citing papers by John T. Betts

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John T. Betts

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All Works

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Computing Optimal Low Thrust Trajectories to the Moon
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About John T. Betts

John T. Betts is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Aerospace Engineering and Computational Mechanics, having authored 54 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (23 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems (14 papers) and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aerospace Engineering (2.5k citations), Numerical Analysis (520 citations) and Control and Systems Engineering (1.1k citations). John T. Betts has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include William P. Huffman, Stephen L. Campbell, Paul D. Frank, Evin Cramer, Stephen Citron, Vasyl V. Tkach, Michael L. Kent, Stephen E. Greiman, Volker Schulz and Ch. Tsitouras. Their work appears in journals such as AIAA Journal, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics.

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