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Why It Is Difficult To Apply Revenue Management Techniques To The Car Rental Business And What Can Be Done About It, Robert F. Gordon Ph.D.
Why It Is Difficult To Apply Revenue Management Techniques To The Car Rental Business And What Can Be Done About It, Robert F. Gordon Ph.D.
Faculty Works: MCS (1984-2023)
Revenue management systems are used by airlines, hotels, and cruise lines to manipulate prices and availability of inventory in real-time, in order to increase profit. We discuss the reasons that the revenue management problem is more complex when applied to the car rental business. We then show how to simplify the model formulation and provide the human-computer interaction, organization, and procedures to make the problem tractable for the car rental business.
Optimization Schemes For The Inversion Of Bouguer Gravity Anomalies, Azucena Zamora
Optimization Schemes For The Inversion Of Bouguer Gravity Anomalies, Azucena Zamora
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Data sets obtained from measurable physical properties of the Earth structure have helped advance the understanding of its tectonic and structural processes and constitute key elements for resource prospecting. 2-Dimensional (2-D) and 3-D models obtained from the inversion of geophysical data sets are widely used to represent the structural composition of the Earth based on physical properties such as density, seismic wave velocities, magnetic susceptibility, conductivity, and resistivity. The inversion of each one of these data sets provides structural models whose consistency depends on the data collection process, methodology, and overall assumptions made in their individual mathematical processes. Although sampling …
Shape Optimization For Drag Minimization Using The Navier-Stokes Equation, Chukwudi Paul Chukwudozie
Shape Optimization For Drag Minimization Using The Navier-Stokes Equation, Chukwudi Paul Chukwudozie
LSU Master's Theses
Fluid drag is a force that opposes relative motion between fluid layers or between solids and surrounding fluids. For a stationary solid in a moving fluid, it is the amount of force necessary to keep the object stationary in the moving fluid. In addition to fluid and flow conditions, pressure drag on a solid object is dependent on the size and shape of the object. The aim of this project is to compute the shape of a stationary 2D object of size 3.5 m2 that minimizes drag for different Reynolds numbers. We solve the problem in the context of shape …