Comparison of continuity equation and Gaussian mixture model for long-term density propagation using semi-analytical methods

DOI10.1007/S10569-022-10066-8MaRDI QIDQ2138505zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pan Sun, Camilla Colombo, Mirko Trisolini, Shuang Li

Publication date 12 May 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03173

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian mixture modelsolar radiation pressuredensity propagationplanetary oblatenessdensity evolution equationsemi-analytical equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orbital mechanics (70M20)

Abstract: This paper compares the continuum evolution for density equation modelling and the Gaussian mixture model on the 2D phase space long-term density propagation problem in the context of high-altitude and high area-to-mass ratio satellite long-term propagation. The density evolution equation, a pure numerical and pointwise method for the density propagation, is formulated under the influence of solar radiation pressure and Earth's oblateness using semi-analytical methods. Different from the density evolution equation and Monte Carlo techniques, for the Gaussian mixture model, the analytical calculation of the density is accessible from the first two statistical moments (i.e., the mean and the covariance matrix) corresponding to each sub-Gaussian distribution for an initial Gaussian density distribution. An insight is given into the phase space long-term density propagation problem subject to nonlinear dynamics. The efficiency and validity of the density propagation are demonstrated and compared between the density evolution equation and the Gaussian mixture model with respect to standard Monte Carlo techniques.

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