The two rigid body interaction using angular momentum theory formulae

DOI10.1007/S10569-017-9751-2zbMATH Open1367.70019arXiv1612.02556OpenAlexW2564548896MaRDI QIDQ2011616FDOQ2011616

Authors: Gwenaël Boué 

Publication date: 4 August 2017

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

Abstract: This work presents an elegant formalism to model the evolution of the full two rigid body problem. The equations of motion, given in a Cartesian coordinate system, are expressed in terms of spherical harmonics and Wigner D-matrices. The algorithm benefits from the numerous recurrence relations satisfied by these functions allowing a fast evaluation of the mutual potential. Moreover, forces and torques are straightforwardly obtained by application of ladder operators taken from the angular momentum theory and commonly used in quantum mechanics. A numerical implementation of this algorithm is made. Tests show that the present code is significantly faster than those currently available in literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02556

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodbinary systemsspin-orbit couplingfull two rigid problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70E99)

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