It's interesting that the optimization chooses to increase the airplane's altitude throughout the day then immediately cut power to near zero in the evening. I imagine this is so that the solar energy from the solar panels can be "stored" as potential energy with gravity?
Is using Jupyter notebooks like this common in the mechanical/aerospace engineering design phase? Seems like a reasonable thing to do prior to CAD/full physics simulations.
It's interesting that the optimization chooses to increase the airplane's altitude throughout the day then immediately cut power to near zero in the evening. I imagine this is so that the solar energy from the solar panels can be "stored" as potential energy with gravity?
Is using Jupyter notebooks like this common in the mechanical/aerospace engineering design phase? Seems like a reasonable thing to do prior to CAD/full physics simulations.