computer simulation ; ski jumper ; optimal control ; aerodynamic force

There are several factors (the initial ski jumper's body position and its changes at the transition to the flight phase, the magnitude and the direction of the velocity vector of the jumper center of mass, the magnitude of the aerodynamic drag and lift forces etc.), which determine the trajectory of the jumper-ski system along with the total distance of jump. The objective of this paper is to bring out a method based on Pontryagin's maximum principle, which allows us to obtain a solution of the optimization problem for flight style control with three constrained control variables - angle of attack (?), body-ski angle (?), ski-opening angle (V). The flight distance was used as the optimality criterion