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Destabilization of fluid-filled spinning containers
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David G.H. Tan
Dept. of Maths. and Stats., U. of Otago
Coauthors: Brent D. Adcock
The talk addresses a long-standing problem in satellite design. A satellite spinning about its axis of least intertia can be destabilized by the motion of the fluid propellant in its fuel tanks. Key obstacles to progress have included a poor understanding of the principal physical processes responsible for satellite destabilization, mathematically unsound formulations of the physical problem, and the lack of robustness of numerical schemes. The talk includes a summary of existing theory and some new computational results.
Date received: June 17, 1999
Copyright © 1999 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # cacc-50.