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David L. Richardson

Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
PhD, 1977: Cornell University

Office: 730 Rhodes Hall
Mailing address: P.O. Box 210070, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070
Phone: (513) 556-3365
Fax: (513) 556-5038
Email: David dot Richardson at uc dot edu

• 20 ENFD 102 MECHANICS II, 05A
• 20 AEEM 695 001 ORBITAL MECH I, 05A
• 20 ENFD 102 MECHANICS II, 06W
• 20 AEEM 603 001 ANALY DYNAMICS I, 06W
• 20 ENFD 102 MECHANICS IIB, 06S
• 20 AEEM 604 001 ANAL DYNAMICS II, 06S

• Astrodynamics
• Long-Term Orbital Evolution
• Chaos Theory

• Richardson, D.R., "Figure-8 Collinear-Point Periodic Orbits," Journal of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, in review, 2006
• Richardson, D.R., Segerman A. and Policastri L., "Analytical Ephemerides for the Satellites of Neptune," AAS/AIAA Paper No. 05-291, Lake Tahoe, NV, 2005.
• Richardson, D.R. & Vigo Aguiar, J., "Modification of the Richardson-Panovsky Methods for Precise Integration of Satellite Orbits," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 45, pp. 25--36, 2003.
• Richardson, D.R. & Mitchell, J.W., "Invariant Manifold Tracking for the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp 622--627, 2003.
• Richardson, D.R. & Mitchell, J.W., "Stabilization and Control of the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, accepted with revisions, 2002
• Richardson, D.R. & Mitchell, J.W., "A Third-Order Analytical Solution for Relative Motion with a Circular Reference Orbit," AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, AAS02-147, January 2002, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, accepted, 2002
• "Dynamics of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies," Proceedings of the US/European Celestial Mechanics Workshop, Poznan, Poland, July 3-7, 2000, D.L. Richardson, ed. (with P.K. Seidelmann and E. Vnuk), Kluwer Academic Publishers, January 2002
• Richardson, D.R. & Mitchell, J.W., "A New Kinetic Element Formulation for the Rotation of a Perturbed Mass-Asymmetric Rigid Body," Dynamics of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies, Proceedings of the US/European Celestial Mechanics Workshop, Poznan, Poland, July 3-7, 2000, and in Journal of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 81, No. 1/2, pp. 13-25, September 2001.
• Richardson, D.R. & Mitchell, J.W., "Maintaining Periodic Trajectories with the First-Order Nonlinear Hill's Equations," Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Astrodynamics, Volume 109, Part III, pp. 2415--2428, August 2001.
• Richardson, D.R., & Mitchell, J.W., "On the Control of In-Plane Spacecraft Relative Motion," Proceedings of the American Controls Conference, pp.730--731, Arlington, Virginia, June 2001.
• Richardson, D.R. & Vigo Aguiar, J.,"Precise Integration of Perturbed Harmonic Oscillator Systems," Computer Physics Communications, accepted, 2000.
• Richardson, D.R. & Karasopoulos, H., "Satellite Nonlinear Attitude Motion about an Oblate Central Body," J. Astronomical Sciences, accepted, 2000.
• "Chaos in Artificial Satellite Motion due to Third-Body Effects," (with T. Bartler), J. Astronomical Sciences, accepted, 2000.
• Richardson, D.R., & Mitchell, J.W., "A Simplified Variation of Parameters Solution for the Motion of an Arbitrarily-Torqued Asymmetric Rigid Body," AAS/AIAA Paper No. 99-460, Girdwood, Alaska, 1999, and in Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Astrodynamics, Volume 103, Part III, pp. 2489--2512, August 1999.
• Richardson, D.R., & Mitchell, J.W., "A Simplified Variation of Parameters Approach to Euler's Equations," J. of Applied Mechanics, Volume 66, no. 1, pp. 273-276, March, 1999.
• Richardson, D.R., "Investigation of Nearby Solutions of Euler's Rotational Equations", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 97-682, Sun Valley, Idaho, August 1997.
• Richardson, D.R., "Satellite Nonlinear Attitude Motion about an Oblate Central Body", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 97-679, Sun Valley, Idaho, August 1997.
• Richardson, D.R., "A Family of Variable-step Chebyshev Methods for Precise Integration of Perturbed Oscillator Systems", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 97-121, Huntsville, AL, February 1997.
• Richardson, D.R., "A Lie Transorm Theory for the Orbits of Neptune's Satellites", Celestial Mechanics, 66, pp. 321-344, 1998.
• Richardson, D.R., "Precise Integration of Perturbed Harmonic Oscillator System" Celestial Mechanics, Accepted 1997.
• Richardson, D.R., "Chaos in Artificial Satellite Motion due to Third-Body Effects", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 95-632, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 1995.
• Richardson, D.R., "A General Purpose Family of Integration Procedures for Astrodynamics Applications", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 95-604, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 1995.
• Richardson, D.R., "Adaption of Chebyshev Methods for Precise Integration of Perturbed Harmonic Oscillators", Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 1995.
• Richardson, D.R., "Chaos in Artificial Satellite Motion due to Third-Body Effects", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 95-632, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 1995.
• "A General Purpose Family of Integration Procedures for Astrodynamics Applications", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 95-604, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 1995.
• Richardson, D.R., "Numerical Investigation of Chaos in the Attitude Motion of a Gravity-Gradient Satellite", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 93-581, 1993.
• Richardson, D.R., "An Investigation of a Family of Moon-Wrapping Orbits about in the Earth-Moon Restricted Three-Body Problem", AAS/AIAA Paper No. 93-697, 1993.
• Richardson, D.R., "A Family of Implicit Chebyshev Methods for the Numerical Integration of First-Order Differential Equations, AAS/AIAA Paper No. 93-691, 1993.
• Richardson, D.R., "Chaos in the Pitch Equation of Motion for the Gravity-Gradient Satellite, AIAA/AAS Paper No. 92-4369, 1992.
• Richardson, D.R., "Determination of the Angular Velocity in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate Systems," J. of Applied Mechanics, 59, p. 456, 1992.