Electrostatic modelling for LISA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4856, Issue , 2002, Pages 43-54

  Shaul, Diana N A ^a   Sumner, Timothy J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ANSYS; Capacitance; Charge; Drag free; Electrostatic; Gravitation; Inertial sensor; LISA; LTP; SMART 2

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

DRAG FREE; LASERINTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA; PRINCIPAL GEOMETRY ELEMENTS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0037516935     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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