Lost at Sea

By S. Finch, J. Shonder. 2004

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What is the path of minimum expected length for escaping a planar convex region Omega? We rigorously obtain best 2-segment and 3-segment solutions when Omega is an infinite strip, and numerically examine 2-segment solutions when Omega is a disk.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics

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