Rigid Body Dynamics / / Alexey Borisov, Ivan S. Mamaev.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of results in rigid body dynamics, including material concerned with the analysis of nonintegrability and chaotic behavior in various related problems. The wealth of topics covered makes it a practical reference for researchers and graduate students in mathe...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics , 52
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 526 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Creators of Rigid Body Dynamics
  • 1. Rigid Body Equations of Motion and Their Integration
  • 2. The Euler – Poisson Equations and Their Generalizations
  • 3. The Kirchhoff Equations and Related Problems of Rigid Body Dynamics
  • 4. Linear Integrals and Reduction
  • 5. Generalizations of Integrability Cases. Explicit Integration
  • 6. Periodic Solutions, Nonintegrability, and Transition to Chaos
  • A. Derivation of the Kirchhoff, Poincaré – Zhukovskii, and Four-Dimensional Top Equations
  • B. The Lie Algebra e(4) and Its Orbits
  • C. Quaternion Equations and L-A Pair for the Generalized Goryachev – Chaplygin Top
  • D. The Hess Case and Quantization of the Rotation Number
  • E. Ferromagnetic Dynamics in a Magnetic Field
  • F. The Landau – Lifshitz Equation, Discrete Systems, and the Neumann Problem
  • G. Dynamics of Tops and Material Points on Spheres and Ellipsoids
  • H. On the Motion of a Heavy Rigid Body in an Ideal Fluid with Circulation
  • I. The Hamiltonian Dynamics of Self-gravitating Fluid and Gas Ellipsoids
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index