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2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Najlaa Ozaar Hasan ◽  
Wafaa Hasan Ali Zaki ◽  
Ahmed Kader Izzet

Researching and modeling perturbations is essential in astrodynamics because it gives information on the deviations from the satellite's normal, idealized, or unperturbed motion. Examined the impact of non-conservative atmospheric drag and orbital elements of low-earth-orbit satellites under low solar activity. The study is consisting of parts, the first looks at the effects of atmospheric drag on LEO satellites different area to mass ratios, and the second looks at different inclination values. Modeling the impacts of perturbation is included in each section, and the final portion determines the effects of atmospheric drag at various node values. The simulation was run using the Celestial Mechanics software system's SATORB module (Beutler, 2005), which solves the perturbation equations via numerical integration. The findings were examined using Matlab 2012. Conclusion that the impacts are stronger for retrograde orbits, which is due to the fact that the satellite moves in the opposite direction. The atmospheric drag effects for all orbital elements were increased by increasing the area to mass ratio. When the node value rises, the size parameter changes slightly, but the other orbital elements change. At varying inclinations, it is found that the changes in orbital elements due to atmospheric drug.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nikiforov

This paper determines natural and resonant frequencies of radial–circular oscillations (waves) on the nonviscous, incompressible fluid partially and evenly filling similar compartments in a rotor that has the cylindrical chamber, solid radial baffles, and constant angular velocity. It is assumed as follows: influence of the gravity and surface tension is negligibly small as compared to the centrifugal effect; configuration of dynamic equilibrium (unperturbed motion) of fluid is an annular rigid body rotation; and the fluid motion perturbed by small lateral deflections of the rotor does not depend on the axial coordinate (plane motion).


2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 3004-3015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Kurtzer ◽  
J. Andrew Pruszynski ◽  
Stephen H. Scott

Although considerable research indicates that reaching movements rely on knowledge of the arm's mechanical properties and environment to anticipate and counter predictable loads, far less research has examined whether this degree of sophistication is present for on-line corrections during reaching. Here we examine the R2/3 response to mechanical perturbations (45–100 ms, also called the long-latency reflex), which is highly flexible and includes the fastest possible contribution from primary motor cortex, a key neural substrate for self-initiated action. Torque perturbations were occasionally and unexpectedly applied to the subject's shoulder and/or elbow in the course of performing reaching movements. Critically, these perturbations would evoke different patterns of feedback corrections from a shoulder extensor muscle if it countered only the local shoulder displacement relative to unperturbed motion or accounted for the mechanical interactions between the shoulder and elbow joints and countered the underlying shoulder torque. Our results show that the earliest response (R1: 20–45 ms) reflected local shoulder displacement, whereas the R2/3 response (45–100 ms) reflected knowledge of multijoint dynamics. Moreover, the same pattern of feedback occurred whether the shoulder muscle helped initiate the movement (during its agonist phase) or helped terminate the movement (during its antagonist phase). These results contribute to the accumulating evidence that highly sophisticated feedback control underlies motor behavior and are consistent with a shared neural substrate, such as primary motor cortex, for feedforward and feedback control.


1999 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Sverre J. Aarseth

AbstractThis paper concentrates on four key tools for performing star cluster simulations developed during the last decade which are sufficient to handle all the relevant dynamical aspects. First we discuss briefly the Hermite integration scheme which is simple to use and highly efficient for advancing the single particles. The main numerical challenge is in dealing with weakly and strongly perturbed hard binaries. A new treatment of the classical Kustaanheimo-Stiefel two-body regularization has proved to be more accurate for studying binaries than previous algorithms based on divided differences or Hermite integration. This formulation employs a Taylor series expansion combined with the Stumpff functions, still with one force evaluation per step, which gives exact solutions for unperturbed motion and is at least comparable to the polynomial methods for large perturbations. Strong interactions between hard binaries and single stars or other binaries are studied by chain regularization which ensures a non-biased outcome for chaotic motions. A new semi-analytical stability criterion for hierarchical systems has been adopted and the long-term effects on the inner binary are now treated by averaging techniques for cases of interest. These modifications describe consistent changes of the orbital variables due to large Kozai cycles and tidal dissipation. The range of astrophysical processes which can now be considered by N-body simulations include tidal capture, circularization, mass transfer by Roche-lobe overflow as well as physical collisions, where the masses and radii of individual stars are modelled by synthetic stellar evolution.


In studying wave propagation in a hot plasma, we treat the dynamics of the medium by kinetic theory rather than by continuum mechanics. The theory thus combines Maxwell’s equations with a transport equation in phase space (the Vlasov equation). An outline of the required procedure will be given. Some of the results are in close agreement with those of the fluid treatment provided the specific heat ratio is appropriately chosen. This is generally the case if the phase speed of the waves well exceeds the thermal speed of the electrons and, for a magnetized plasma, the frequency is not close to a harmonic of the cyclotron frequency. New phenomena are found if there are particles whose unperturbed motion is in resonance with the wave field. In the unmagnetized case this results in Landau damping or in instabilities, the latter being analogous to the mechanism of the laser. In the magnetized case there are, in addition, completely new modes of propagation for waves travelling approximately normal to the applied field. Many of these phenomena find direct application in ionospheric phenomena and diagnostics.


1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 900-903
Author(s):  
V. A. Lazaryan ◽  
L. A. Dlugach ◽  
M. L. Korotenko ◽  
N. A. Radchenko

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