A generic methodology for determination of drag coefficient of an aerostat envelope using CFD

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA 5th ATIO and the AIAA 16th Lighter-than-Air Systems Technology Conference and Balloon Systems Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1361-1376

  Kale, Sagar M ^a,b   Joshi, Pankaj ^a,b   Pant, Rajkumar S ^a,b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Aerospace Engineering Department   (India)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; ERRORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

QUADRATIC RESPONSE; USER-SPECIFIED VOLUMES;

METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS;

EID: 33644502857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-7442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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