AAS 97-688
PARALLEL VERSION OF SPECIAL PERTURBATIONS ORBIT PROPAGATOR
B. Neta - Naval Postgraduate School
Abstract
Parallelization can be achieved by either control or domain decomposition. The latter was tried for analytic (by Neta et al) and semianalytic (by Wallace) propagators. Neal and Coffey will discuss the domain decomposition for special perturbations. The control decomposition idea is inefficient for analytic propagators (Neta et al), because the computation time is too short. In this paper, we discuss a control decomposition approach to parallelize a numerical orbit propagator which is more computationally intensive.