Space Engineering - Modeling and Optimization with Case Studies - Grand Format

This book presents a selection of advanced case studies that cover a substantial range of issues and real-world challenges and applications in space engineering. Vital mathematical modeling, optimization methodologies and numerical solution aspects of each application case study are presented in detail, with discussions of a range of advanced model development and solution techniques and tools. Space engineering challenges are discussed in the following contexts : Advanced Space Vehicle Design ; Computation of Optimal Low Thrust Transfers ; Indirect Optimization of Spacecraft Trajectories ; Resource-Constrained Scheduling ; Packing Problems in Space ; Design of Complex Interplanetary Trajectories ; Satellite Constellation Image Acquisition ; Re-entry Test Vehicle Configuration Selection ; Collision Risk Assessment on Perturbed Orbits ; Optimal Robust Design of Hybrid Rocket Engines ; Nonlinear Regression Analysis in Space Engineering ; Regression-Based Sensitivity Analysis and Robust Design ; Low-Thrust Multi-Revolution Orbit Transfers ; Modeling and Optimization of Balance Layout Problems ; Pilot-Induced Oscillations Alleviation ; Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid Transfers to Near-Earth Objects ; Probabilistic Safety Analysis of the Collision Between Space Debris and Satellite ; Flatness-based Low-thrust Trajectory Optimization for Spacecraft Proximity Operations.