Motion in a Central Force Field with Drag or Tangential Propulsion

DOI10.1137/0142052zbMATH Open0509.70005OpenAlexW2050237985MaRDI QIDQ4747573FDOQ4747573

Authors: Donald C. Benson 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0142052

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensionaldrag and/or tangential propulsioninverse-cube central force fieldorbit is logarithmic spiral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Variable mass, rockets (70P05) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70F99) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99)

Cited In (2)

• Euclidean submanifolds via tangential components of their position vector fields
• Topics in differential geometry associated with position vector fields on Euclidean submanifolds

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