Fluid-structure interaction modelling of parachute soft-landing dynamics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 47, Issue 6-7, 2005, Pages 619-631

  Stein, Keith ^a   Tezduyar, Tayfun E ^b   Sathe, Sunil ^b   Benney, Richard ^c   Charles, Richard ^c  

^a BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow simulation; Fluid structure interactions; Parachute aerodynamics; Soft landing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LANDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARACHUTES;

CARGO PARACHUTE OPERATIONS; DROP TESTS; PAYLOAD; RETRACTION DEVICES;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

FLUID FLOW; INTERACTION; MODELING;

EID: 14344266171     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.835     Document Type: Article

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