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Planar Oscillation of the Satellite Near Parametric Resonance in the Elliptic Orbit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Ram Binoy Singh*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Bihar, Muzaffarpur

Abstract

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This paper is devoted to the study of motion of an artificial satellite relative to its centre of mass near parametric resonance in elliptic orbit. It is well known fact that the satellite, of the form of an ellipsoid with three unequal axes, while moving about the central planet, oscillates about the stable position of equilibrium (the longest axis of the satellite coinciding with the radius vector of its centre of mass). The oscillation of the satellite about this position of equilibrium in the orbital plane of its centre of mass is described by a well known second order nonlinear differential equation with a periodic sine force. Naturally there will be resonance cases (main as well as parametric) for such a systems. In the previous author’s work, it was discovered a series of parametric resonances for the system, which corresponds to n = ½k where k is a non-zero integer and n is a parameter depending on the shape of the satellite. The parametric resonance, for k = 1, has been considered here. The first approximate solution of the equation of motion has been obtained by Eogoliubov-Krilov method with e (the eccentricity of the orbit of the centre of mass of the satellite) as the small parameter. This method enables us to visualise the oscillation of the satellite for the resonance case as well as near the resonance. Three stationary values of the amplitudes and phase of oscillation have been obtained, out of which only one is stable near this particular parametric resonance. At the resonance there appear only one stationary regime of oscillation with a very small amplitude.

Type
Part V General Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Nova Science Publishers 1993

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