Brenton Duffy
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ~Johannes Kepler
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My name is Brenton Duffy and I am a graduate student in the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University
in Washington, DC. My speciality is guidance and control in astronautical systems with a focus
on multi-body systems, low-thrust propulsion, and formation-flying.
I successfully defended my dissertation on March 23, 2012 in front of a committee made up of GW
professors David Chichka, James Lee, Taeyoung Lee and Helmut Haberzettl and APL Mission Design Engineers
Christopher Scott and Martin Ozimek. The title of my dissertation is "Analytical Methods and Perturbation
Theory for the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem of Astrodynamics." The goal of the project was
to develop analytical models for the elliptic restricted three-body problem (ERTBP), which consists
of a spacecraft flying within the gravitational potential field generated by a non-circular planet-moon
system. Please visit my Research and Publications
pages for more details and access to the research documentation.