Breaking Ice with Air cushion Vehicle - Find minimum pressure with Newton-Raphson method
Objective: AIM = In determining the minimum cushion pressure needed to break a given thickness of iceusing an air cushion vehicle, Muller (“Ice Breaking with an Air Cushion Vehicle”) inMathematical Modeling: Classroom Notes in Applied Mathematics, SIAM 1987) derivedthe equation where p denotes the cushion pressure, h…