Problems of Qualitative Analysis in the Spatial Dynamics of Rigid Bodies Interacting with Media

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the problem on the spatial free deceleration of a rigid body in a resistive medium under the assumption that the interaction of the homogeneous axisymmetric body with the medium is concentrated on the frontal part of the surface, which has the shape of a flat circular disk. In earlier works of the author, under the simplest assumptions on interaction forces, the impossibility of oscillations with bounded amplitude was proved. Note that an exact analytic description of forces and moments of the body-medium interaction is unknown, so we use the method of “embedding” of the problem into a wider class of problems; this allows one to obtain a sufficiently complete qualitative description of the motion of the body. For dynamical systems considered, we obtain particular solutions and families of phase portraits of quasi-velocities in the three-dimensional space that consist of countable sets of nonequivalent portraits with different nonlinear qualitative properties.