Issue on page /notebooks/06.04-Soft-Landing-Apollo-11-on-the-Moon.html

[alex-kling]

First , let me say thank you for your work with Pyomo, amazing software!

In the Soft landing example : 6.4.3. Version 2: Rescaled model, the boundary conditions are provided for the altitude (h_initial = 100000.0 m) and the orbital velocity (v_initial = 1520 m/s)

m.h[0].fix(h_initial)  
m.v[0].fix(-v_initial)

I noticed that for the normalized formulation above, v(tau)=v(t)*T (T=final time) so the initial velocity provided is not scaled appropriately. That result in a velocity profile:

vsim = np.array([m.v[t]()/m.T() for t in m.t])

that does not match the 1520 m/s boundary conditions at t=0.

I suggest updating the example. (Also, is there an obvious work-around to specify boundary condition for the derivatives in a normalized setting?).

Best,

[alex-kling]

Actually, (answering my own question), something along the lines of :

m.h[0].fix(h_initial) 
m.v_tf = pye.Constraint(m.t, rule=lambda m, t: pye.Constraint.Skip if t != m.t.first() else m.v[t] == v_initial*m.T)

for the initial conditions produces a solution.

[adowling2]

@alex-kling Thank you. In case you did not know, @jckantor passed away during the summer. I plan on maintaining this cookbook here: https://github.com/ndcbe/ND-Pyomo-Cookbook

If you want to open a pull request, I'd love to have you as a contributor.

[Vondoe79]

Dear Alex Dowling, I extend my heartfelt condolences to you, his entire team, and family. He was a remarkable educator for all of us. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

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