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Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics Edward Belbruno

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics By Edward Belbruno

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics by Edward Belbruno


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Describes a revolutionary approach to determining low energy routes for spacecraft and comets by exploiting regions in space where motion is very sensitive. This work also represents an introductory text to celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, and dynamical astronomy.

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Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics: With Applications to the Construction of Low Energy Transfers by Edward Belbruno

This book describes a revolutionary new approach to determining low energy routes for spacecraft and comets by exploiting regions in space where motion is very sensitive (or chaotic). It also represents an ideal introductory text to celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, and dynamical astronomy. Bringing together wide-ranging research by others with his own original work, much of it new or previously unpublished, Edward Belbruno argues that regions supporting chaotic motions, termed weak stability boundaries, can be estimated. Although controversial until quite recently, this method was in fact first applied in 1991, when Belbruno used a new route developed from this theory to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the moon. This application provided a major verification of his theory, representing the first application of chaos to space travel. Since that time, the theory has been used in other space missions, and NASA is implementing new applications under Belbruno's direction. The use of invariant manifolds to find low energy orbits is another method here addressed. Recent work on estimating weak stability boundaries and related regions has also given mathematical insight into chaotic motion in the three-body problem. Belbruno further considers different capture and escape mechanisms, and resonance transitions. Providing a rigorous theoretical framework that incorporates both recent developments such as Aubrey-Mather theory and established fundamentals like Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory, this book represents an indispensable resource for graduate students and researchers in the disciplines concerned as well as practitioners in fields such as aerospace engineering.

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics Reviews

You have just launched a multimillion dollar communications satellite into space. A malfunction means your expensive cargo will not reach its required orbit. Who are you going to call? A good choice would be Edward Belbruno, a celestial mechanician who seems to specialize in such lost causes... Capture Dynamics is the first book to describe the necessary theory in the context of the whole process of capture... The result is a brilliant example of the application of chaos theory to practical problems.--Carl Murray, New Scientist This is a how-to book on how to construct a low energy orbit from the earth to the moon by the man who did just that to save the Japanese space mission in 1990.--Ken Meyer, SIAM Review

About Edward Belbruno

Edward Belbruno has been a Visiting Research Collaborator in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University since 1998. The author of numerous articles in professional journals in mathematics, astronomy, and aerospace engineering, he received the Laurel Award in 1999 for the salvage of a Hughes satellite in 1998 using lunar transfer.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii Foreword xi Preface xiii Chapter 1. Introduction to the N -Body Problem 1 1.1 The N -Body Problem 1 1.2 Planar Three-Body Problem 9 1.3 Two-Body Problem 11 1.4 Regularization of Collision 16 1.5 The Restricted Three-Body Problem: Formulations 24 1.6 The Kepler Problem and Equivalent Geodesic Flows 35 Chapter 2. Bounded Motion, Cantor Sets, and Twist Maps 49 2.1 Quasi-Periodicity and the KAM Theorem 50 2.2 The Moser Twist Theorem, Cantor Sets 59 2.3 Area-Preserving Maps, Fixed Points, Hyperbolicity 66 2.4 Periodic Orbits and Elliptic Fixed Points 78 2.5 Aubrey-Mather Sets and the Restricted Three-Body Problem 91 Chapter 3. Capture 103 3.1 Introduction to Capture 105 3.2 The Weak Stability Boundary 120 3.3 Existence of Primary Interchange Capture and an Application 131 3.4 A Low Energy Lunar Transfer Using Ballistic Capture 144 3.5 Parabolic Motion, Hyperbolic Extension of W 156 3.6 Existence of a Hyperbolic Network on W H 165 Bibliography 193 Index 209

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CIN0691094802G
9780691094809
0691094802
Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics: With Applications to the Construction of Low Energy Transfers by Edward Belbruno
Used - Good
Hardback
Princeton University Press
20040125
232
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