Energy-accommodation coefficient and drag coefficient modeling for stella and starlette

Piyush M. Mehta; Craig A. McLaughlin; Travis F. Lechtenberg; Stephen Mance

Energy-accommodation coefficient and drag coefficient modeling for stella and starlette

Piyush M. Mehta, Craig A. McLaughlin, Travis F. Lechtenberg, Stephen Mance

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

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Abstract

Energy-accommodation coefficient is an important factor in estimating satellite drag coefficients. Relevant work done over the last decade involving energy-accommodation has predominantly been in the 150-500 km altitude range. This paper presents a step toward modelling energy-accommodation coefficient in the 500-1000 km altitude range. Drag coefficients from different sources were used for a qualitative analysis to extract the accommodation coefficients for Stella and Starlette. This paper also examines the ability of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) methods to compute satellite drag coefficients with partial accommodation using Bird's DS3V module. Results show that the accommodation coefficients for Stella and Starlette vary in the range of 0.1-0.28 and 0.29-0.58 respectively. Results also show that Monte Carlo methods perform well in calculating drag coefficients and that DSMC provides a plausible method for determining drag coefficients for non-spherical satellites with estimates for energy- accommodation coefficient. Copyright

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012, IAC 2012
Pages	5791-5801
Number of pages	11
Volume	7
State	Published - Dec 1 2012
Event	63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012, IAC 2012 - Naples, Italy Duration: Oct 1 2012 → Oct 5 2012

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Other	63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012, IAC 2012
Country	Italy
City	Naples
Period	10/1/12 → 10/5/12

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