The depletion of conventional energy resources, including coal, oil and naturalgas, has been forecast and concerned in modern society. The observable effectsof global climate change as a result of conventional energy consuming, likemelting glaciers, rising sea level and extreme weathers, have been witnessedmore significantly over time. However, the fossil energy is still the main supply toour society due to the technique limit and economic benefits. A way out of theresource dilemma, to step into the 2.0 era of resource utilization and to breakthrough the limit of exploration of our living space, is to investigate and developspace energy as an alternative. The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (Chang’e project) and American NASA’s Exploration Campaign “Back to the Moon and on to Mars” both are very ambitious for this.
Numerous publications have been reported focusing on space energy and mostof them are using observational, experimental and analyzing approaches. Thereremains still a long journey for us to put these into practice, and somefundamental work needs to be accomplished step by step. For example,the exploitation of rare materials from asteroids, like Helium 3 spreading on thesurface of Moon, is a hot spot currently in this field and this spreading is oftenconsidered as a consequence of solar wind and transport in porous media, whichcan be modeled decently. This special issue aims to build a more collective engagements among compound talents of the wide areas: applied mathematics, petroleum engineering, computational geoscience and astronomical studies, and to highlight the current developments and to insight future studies. Both original research and review studies related to this topic are invited, particularly including but not limited to the following fields:
Novel mathematical models describing the planetary physical phenomenon
History inversion to investigate planetary evolution process
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method and its application in
Reservoir prediction on outer space planets
Space energy storage and transportation
Magneto hydro dynamic methods and its application on investigating Helium-3
Non-isothermal phase equilibrium studies for planetary impacts
Astronomical observations and planet visualization