Sensitivity analysis of bare-wire space tether systems

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Leamy; Ahmed K. Noor; Tamer M. Wasfy

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 190
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0045-7825
• DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7825(01)00163-3

✦ Synopsis

Hypergeometric series solutions are presented for the electrodynamic response of bare-wire tether systems, and are used to generate closed-form expressions for the sensitivity coecients in the generator con®guration. For the thruster con®guration, the governing equations are in the form of three simultaneous dierential equations, which do not allow closed-form solutions for the sensitivity coecients to be generated, and therefore numerical solutions for the sensitivity coecients are presented.