Numerical simulation of soft landing for clusters of cargo parachutes

ECCOMAS 2004 - European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Stein, Keith R ^a   Tezduyar, Tayfun E ^b   Kumar, Vinod ^b   Sathe, Sunil V ^b   Benney, Richard J ^c   Charles, Richard D ^c  

^a BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c US Army Soldier Systems Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid structure interaction; Parachute systems

Indexed keywords

CARGO PARACHUTE; FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; FLOW COMPUTATION; GROUND IMPACT; LAGRANGIAN; PARACHUTE SYSTEM; SOFT LANDING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

PARACHUTES;

EID: 84893481882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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