TY - GEN
T1 - Approximate time-dependent solutions of the N-body problem
AU - Benavides, Julio César
AU - Spencer, David B.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The N-body problem is defined and its equations of motion are presented. A new time transformation based on two-body problem series solutions is introduced and used to develop a time-dependent, analytic, first-order solution of the N-body problem. A process of deriving higher-order, time-dependent, analytic solutions of the N-body problem is also introduced. These analytic solutions are used to investigate periodic and non-periodic trajectories in the restricted three-body problem and are shown to be capable of describing complete, N-body trajectories with good accuracy and with far fewer function evaluations than are required by numerical integration.
AB - The N-body problem is defined and its equations of motion are presented. A new time transformation based on two-body problem series solutions is introduced and used to develop a time-dependent, analytic, first-order solution of the N-body problem. A process of deriving higher-order, time-dependent, analytic solutions of the N-body problem is also introduced. These analytic solutions are used to investigate periodic and non-periodic trajectories in the restricted three-body problem and are shown to be capable of describing complete, N-body trajectories with good accuracy and with far fewer function evaluations than are required by numerical integration.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053424815
SN - 9780877035602
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 1317
EP - 1330
BT - Spaceflight Mechanics 2010 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
T2 - AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Y2 - 14 February 2010 through 17 February 2010
ER -