I-CELMECH "New frontiers of Celestial Mechanics: theory and applications"
Project Type: Prin 2017
Funded by: MUR
Period: Aug 01, 2019 – Aug 19, 2023
Budget: € 92824
Principal Investigator: Massimiliano Guzzo (Università di Padova)
Local coordinator: Giulio Baù (Università di Pisa)
Participants
Giovanni Federico Gronchi (Università di Pisa), Clara Grassi (Università di Pisa), Erica Scantamburlo (Università di Pisa), Andrea Milani Comparetti (Università di Pisa)
Description
The project I-CELMECH focuses on mathematical methods in Celestial Mechanics with the goal of advancing in parallel on the theoretical part (perturbative and stability theories) and providing applications to astrodynamical problems of interest for space agencies and industries.
Several members of the project are recognized leaders in perturbation methods; to plan a further jump we identified theoretical research areas (explicit normal form construction; KAM-Nekhoroshev theories; regularizations; non-Hamiltonian models), whose rigorous methods can provide powerful tools to applied problems (space debris; extra-solar planets; low-energy orbits in Astrodynamics; orbit determination of NEO; geodynamics). Our objectives combine theory and applications focusing on: normal forms for space debris; KAM tori and resonances in extrasolar systems; space manifold dynamics; gravitating systems with noise; patched dynamics for orbit determination; geodynamics of Jupiter satellites; non-Hamiltonian stability. I-CELMECH aims at reaching different goals: an innovative research program, a high-level training, new collaborations also with space agencies/industries.