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Book Workshop on Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Download or read book Workshop on Integrated Modeling of Telescopes written by T. Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Download or read book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes written by Torben Andersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground- or space-based telescopes are becoming increasingly more complex and construction budgets are typically in the billion dollar range. Facing costs of this magnitude, availability of engineering tools for prediction of performance and design optimization is imperative. Establishment of simulation models combining different technical disciplines such as Structural Dynamics, Control Engineering, Optics and Thermal Engineering is indispensable. Such models are normally called Integrated Models because they involve many different disciplines. The models will play an increasingly larger role for design of future interdisciplinary optical systems in space or on ground. The book concentrates on integrated modeling of optical and radio telescopes but the techniques presented will be applicable to a large variety of systems. Hence, the book will be of interest to optical and radio telescope designers, designers of spacecrafts that include optical systems, and to designers of various complex defense systems. The book may also find use as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses within the field. "Adaptive Optics" is an exciting and relatively new field, originally dedicated to correction for blurring when imaging through the atmosphere. Although this objective is still of high importance, the concept of Adaptive Optics has recently evolved further. Today, the objective is not only to correct for atmospheric turbulence effects but also for a range of static and dynamical telescope aberrations. The notion of adaptive optics has expanded to the field of "Wavefront Control", correcting for a variety of system aberrations. Wavefront control systems maintain form and position of optical elements with high precision under static and dynamical load. In many ways, such systems replace the steel structures of traditional optical systems, thereby providing much lighter systems with a performance not possible before. Integrated Modeling is the foremost tool for studies of Wavefront Control for telescopes and complex optics and is therefore now of high importance. Springer has recently published two books on telescopes, "Reflecting Telescope Optics" by R. Wilson, and "The Design and Construction of Large Optical Telescopes" by P. Bely. Noting that a new (and expensive) generation of Extremely Large Telescopes with apertures in the 30-100 m range is on the way, the present book on integrated modeling is a good match to the existing books and an appropriate specialization and continuation of some subjects dealt with in those books.

Book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Download or read book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Download or read book Integrated Modeling of Telescopes written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adaptive Optics in Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Download or read book Adaptive Optics in Integrated Modeling of Telescopes written by Anita Enmark and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modeling  Systems Engineering  and Project Management for Astronomy II

Download or read book Modeling Systems Engineering and Project Management for Astronomy II written by M. J. Cullum and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2006 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Book Modeling and Systems Engineering for Astronomy

Download or read book Modeling and Systems Engineering for Astronomy written by Simon C. Craig and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2004 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Book Integrated Modeling and Dynamics Simulation for the Next Generation Space Telescope

Download or read book Integrated Modeling and Dynamics Simulation for the Next Generation Space Telescope written by Olivier Ladislas De Weck and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integrated Modeling to Facilitate Control Architecture Design for Lightweight Space Telescopes

Download or read book Integrated Modeling to Facilitate Control Architecture Design for Lightweight Space Telescopes written by Lucy Elizabeth Cohan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) As the areal density of the mirror decreases, the cost due to mass decreases, but the cost due to control increases because more control is required to meet the requirements. Therefore, a balance between lightweight systems and control is sought to give the best overall performance. Additionally, there are many different types of control that could be used on the system, thus finding optimal combinations of controllers, sensors, actuators, and bandwidths is a daunting task. The integrated modeling technique allows the designer to examine the effects of structural parameters and requirements on the control system architecture and the performance metrics. The ability to determine favorable control system architectures early in the design process will allow new technologies to be pushed further, while still maintaining confidence that the system will perform as expected.

Book Highly Innovative Space Telescope Concepts

Download or read book Highly Innovative Space Telescope Concepts written by Howard A. MacEwen and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cores to Clusters

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  • Author : M.S. Nanda Kumar
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-04-07
  • ISBN : 0387263578
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Cores to Clusters written by M.S. Nanda Kumar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was with pleasure that CAUP became for three days the core to the cloud of star formation experts all over the world. Close to the celebration of its 15th anniversary – therefore still in the early stages of institutional evolution – we are proud of our multiple activities in Astronomy: a productive research centre, classi?ed as “Institution of excellence” within the Portuguese research units, but also an “Institution of Public Utility” as recognised by the Government. Fifteen years ago we choose to play a role not only in research, as expected from any research centre but also in the training of the future astronomers and the promotion of science and scienti?c culture. This choice is clearly stated in our by-laws and also in the multiple activities we have carried out since. Along the years we have organized on a regular basis international Workshops similar to “Cores to Clusters”. Sometimes we have chosen to organize int- national conferences of a larger size. On other occasions the choice has been for smaller and more informal discussion meetings. Or even doctoral schools with very different objectives. In common all those meetings have always had, besides the formal registered participants, a group of informal participants, our undergraduate students of Astronomy, so eager to be in touch with the real world.

Book Modelling and Simulation in Science

Download or read book Modelling and Simulation in Science written by V. Di Ges— and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume contains results presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy ? ?Modeling and Simulation in Science? held on April 15-22, 2007, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy. Recent progress and new trends in the field of simulation and modeling in three branches of science ? astrophysics, biology, and climatology ? are described in papers presented by outstanding scientists. The impact of new technologies on the design of novel data analysis systems and the interrelation among different fields are foremost in scientists' minds in the modern era. This book therefore focuses primarily on data analysis methodologies and techniques.

Book The Many Scales in the Universe

Download or read book The Many Scales in the Universe written by J.C. Toro Iniesta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All branches of astrophysics are encompassed in this book, from the largest scales and cosmology to the solar system and the Sun, through the galaxies and the stars, including a section on astronomical instrumentation. Experts from across the world ‘speak’ in a single book about the most recent, exciting results from their fields. A CD-ROM accompanies the book opening a panorama of astrophysics today.

Book The Design and Construction of Large Optical Telescopes

Download or read book The Design and Construction of Large Optical Telescopes written by Pierre Bely and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no dearth of books on telescope optics and, indeed, optics is clearly a keyelementinthedesignandconstructionoftelescopes.Butitisbynomeans the only important element. As telescopes become larger and more costly, other aspects such as structures, pointing, wavefront control, enclosures, and project management become just as critical. Although most of the technical knowledge required for all these ?elds is available in various specialized books, journal articles, and technical reports, they are not necessarily written with application to telescopes in mind. This bookisa?rstattemptatassemblinginasingletextthebasicastronomicaland engineering principles used in the design and construction of large telescopes. Itsaimistobroadlycoverallmajoraspectsofthe?eld,fromthefundamentals ofastronomicalobservationto optics, controlsystems,structural,mechanical, andthermalengineering,aswellasspecializedtopicssuchassiteselectionand program management. This subject is so vast that an in-depth treatment is obviously imprac- cal. Our intent is therefore only to provide a comprehensive introduction to the essential aspects of telescope design and construction. This book will not replace specialized scienti?c and technical texts. But we hope that it will be useful for astronomers, managers, and systems engineers who seek a basic understanding of the underlying principles of telescope making, and for s- cialists who wish to acquaint themselves with the fundamental requirements and approaches of their colleagues in other disciplines.

Book The National Symposium and Workshop on Optical Platforms

Download or read book The National Symposium and Workshop on Optical Platforms written by Charles L. Wyman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book II International GTC Workshop

Download or read book II International GTC Workshop written by Ana Maria Hidalgo-Gámez and published by UNAM. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Computational Fluid Dynamics

Download or read book Computational Fluid Dynamics written by Hyoung Woo Oh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as a reference text for advanced scientists and research engineers to solve a variety of fluid flow problems using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Each chapter arises from a collection of research papers and discussions contributed by the practiced experts in the field of fluid mechanics. This material has encompassed a wide range of CFD applications concerning computational scheme, turbulence modeling and its simulation, multiphase flow modeling, unsteady-flow computation, and industrial applications of CFD.