Singularities in Gravitational Systems Applications to Chaotic Transport in the Solar System /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benest, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Froeschle, Claude (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 590
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Earth sciences.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Complex Systems.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Earth Sciences, general.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
• Physical Description: XI, 216 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540480099
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48009-9

Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics. The present set of lectures introduces the mathematical methods used in the theory of singularities in gravitational systems, reviews modeling techniques for the simulation of close encounters and presents the state of the art about the study of diffusion of comets, wandering asteroids, meteors and planetary ring particles. The book will be of use to researchers and graduate students alike.