Basins of Attraction in the Copenhagen Problem Where the Primaries Are Magnetic Dipoles英文文献资料.docVIP

Applied Mathematics, 2012, 3, 541-548 /10.4236/am.2012.36082 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/am) Basins of Attraction in the Copenhagen Problem Where the Primaries Are Magnetic Dipoles Tilemachos J. Kalvouridis , Maria Ch. Gousidou-Koutita 1 2 Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: tkalvouridis@, gousidou@math.auth.gr 1 2 Received March 14, 2012; revised April 11, 2012; accepted April 18, 2012 ABSTRACT We deal with the Copenhagen problem where the two big bodies of equal masses are also magnetic dipoles and we study some aspects of the dynamics of a charged particle which moves in the electromagnetic field produced by the primaries. We investigate the equilibrium positions of the particle and their parametric variations, as well as the basins of attraction for various numerical methods and various values of the parameter λ. Keywords: Copenhagen Problem with Magnetic Dipoles; Equilibrium Locations; Basins of Attraction; Solution of Non-Linear Algebraic Systems; Newton and Quasi-Newton Methods; Comparison of Numerical Methods 1. Introduction ods, the Newton’s method and an improved Modified Broyden’s one. Finally, in the last section, we discuss the obtained results and we expose some of the major con- clusions concerning our investigation. The Copenhagen problem is a particular case of the fa- mous restricted three-body problem where the two big spherical and homogeneous primaries have equal masses and rotate with constant angular velocity in circular or- bits around their centre of mass, while a small massless particle moves under the resultant Newtonian action of the two primaries. The problem was exhaustively studied by S