Singularities in Gravitational Systems: Applications to Chaotic Transport in the Solar System / Edition 1

by Daniel Benest, Claude Froeschle

Overview

Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics. The present set of lectures introduces the mathematical methods used in the theory of singularities in gravitational systems, reviews modeling techniques for the simulation of close encounters and presents the state of the art about the study of diffusion of comets, wandering asteroids, meteors and planetary ring particles. The book will be of use to researchers and graduate students alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540437659
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/03/2002
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #590
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Singularities, Collisions and Regularization Theory.- The Levi-Civita, KS and Radial-Inversion Regularizing Transformations.- The Birkhoff and B 3 Regularizing Transformations.- Perturbative Methods in Regularization Theory.- Collisions and Singularities in the n-body Problem.- Triple Collision and Close Triple Encounters.- Dynamical and Kinetic Aspects of Collisions.- Chaotic Scattering in Planetary Rings.- Close Encounters in Öpik’s Theory.- Generalized Averaging Principle and Proper Elements for NEAs.

Editorial Reviews

"[…] The book contains many interesting and attractive topics for a wide audience, and reaches the high standards of the previous works of the editors." (Antonio Elipe, Celestial Mechanics – An International Journal of Space Dynamics 2004, vol. 89, page 97-98)

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