Abstract: Methods are described for the experimental measurement and analytical estimation of the losses of mechanical energy in a spinning and precessing spherical cavity filled with fluid. Test results ...

Abstract: Rigid-body approximations for turbulent motion in a liquid-filled, spinning and precessing, spherical cavity are presented. The first model assumes the turbulent liquid to spin and precess as a ...

Abstract: The method of singular value decomposition is shown to have useful application to the problem of reducing the equations of motion for a class of constrained dynamical systems to their minimum ...