Representation of light pressure resultant force and moment as a tensor series

DOI10.1007/S10569-017-9758-8zbMATH Open1374.70064arXiv1701.06627OpenAlexW2582843878MaRDI QIDQ1680321FDOQ1680321

Authors: Nikolay Nerovny, Vladimir Zimin, Sergey Fedorchuk, Evgeny Golubev 

Publication date: 15 November 2017

Published in: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we address a problem of determination of light pressure upon space structures of the complex geometric shape. For the surface element, we wrote a condition that this element can interact with light only from the front side, not from the back side. This condition To in the form of series of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. Chebyshev expansion lets us move to the series of tensors of increasing rank for the problem of determination of force and moment. We obtained expressions for the fiber method for determination of light pressure on space structures of complex geometry taking into account self--shadowing and reflections within the structure. We also give the expressions for tensor parametrization by the specularity coefficient in case of specular-diffuse reflection. For these expressions we calculated the principal moment and force upon two-sided flat solar sail, spherical and cylindrical bodies, and approximated light pressure upon a perspective space observatory Millimetron. The proposed expressions can be used in the ballistic analysis of solar sails and other space objects, which are significantly affected by the radiation pressure. Also, these results can be used to analyze the dynamics of movement of large-scale space structures around the center of gravity under the light pressure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06627

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zbMATH Keywords

solar sailresultant momentresultant forcelight pressureMillimetronSRP

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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