Escape distribution for an inclined billiard [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5466


H${\acute{e}}$non [8] used an inclined billiard to investigate aspects of chaotic scattering which occur in satellite encounters and in other situations. His model consisted of a piecewise mapping which described the motion of a point particle bouncing elastically on two disks. A one parameter family of orbits, named h-orbits, was obtained by starting the particle at rest from a given height. We obtain an analytical expression for the escape distribution of the h-orbits, which is also compared with results from numerical simulations. Finally, some discussion is made about possible applications of the h-orbits in connection with Hill’s problem.

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A. Roy and N. Georgakarakos
Tue, 26 Aug 14
57/59

Comments: This is a preprint of a paper published in ‘Regular and Chaotic Dynamics’ in 2012