Matlab to produce numerical and analytical solutions, MATLAB Programming

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This assignment is motivated by the use of flybys of planets / moons in spacecraft missions to alter a spacecraft's trajectory (flight path). Planetary flybys can be used to not only change the direction of a spacecraft's motion, but to also alter its speed. Such flybys are often referred to as "gravity assists" since the change to the spacecraft's motion is enabled by the force on the spacecraft due to the planet's gravity field. For example, missions to the outer solar system typically use the gravity of Jupiter to provide a "boost" to the spacecraft's speed, such that the spacecraft can actually make it to the outer solar system. In contrast, missions to the inner solar system typically use the gravity field of one or more planets to slow the spacecraft down enough that it can go into orbit around the desired planet.

In this assignment we will construct a simplified planetary flyby. The simplifications are that we assume an otherwise "straight-line" path of the spacecraft (rather than starting with an elliptical orbit around the sun, or a hyberbolic trajectory into the outer solar system), and we assume that the planet is stationary during the flyby (in practice the planet is of course in an elliptical orbit around the Sun). In the assignment we will draw on much of what we have learned in the course to implement a numerical integration algorithm in MATLAB to compute a spacecraft's acceleration, velocity and position as it flys by a planet. The assignment will also demonstrate how you can use

MATLAB to produce numerical solutions to problems for which there is no simple analytical solution.

Coding Overview

For this assignment you will write 3 functions and several scripts. The functions are as follows:

a.) The guts of your code will be a function get_traj.m that will return the acceleration, velocity and position vectors along the complete spacecraft trajectory. get_traj.m will call three subfunctions gravacc.m,

scvelpos.m, and checkinit.m.

b.) gravacc.m will calculate the gravitational acceleration on the spacecraft at each time step.

c.) scvelpos.m will compute the instantaneous change in position and velocity of the spacecraft due to the gravitational acceleration caused by the planet.

d.) checkinit.m will check that your initial spacecraft velocity and position are feasible.

e.) The main script(s) will call get_traj.m for various initial (starting) conditions that I will give you. The main script(s) will contain the code to generate the requested figures or output in each section.

IMPORTANT POINTS:

1. The use of SI units is ESSENTIAL to this assignment. Make sure to convert ALL your length, mass and time variables into m, kg and seconds before doing any calculations. For plotting purposes it will be easier to use km, convert m to km only for plotting.

2. The amount of code required for this assignment is not huge. For example, my versions of functions get_traj.m,

gravacc.m, scvelpos.m, and checkinit.m contain 11, 4, 2 and 3 lines of code respectively, not including comment and help lines. However, you should be vigilent about being consistent in your use of variable names, and in not generating unnecessary variables; otherwise your code (and thinking!) will get out of hand.

3. Make sure your code is organized into easily readable, compact coding "blocks", with appropriate comment lines, and separated by white space.

4. All functions must contain help lines.


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