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journal contribution
posted on 2024-06-04, 05:49authored byV Chai, D Parkhi, S Boopathy, J Xiang, J Schlüter
This study presents a model to determine the aerodynamic forces on an irregularly shaped
object for prediction of trajectories of debris. We classify the debris according to shape
and use wind tunnel tests to create a database of aerodynamic forces of similarly sized
objects. We have then validated the database results against wind tunnel measurements of
aerodynamic coefficients of rock-like debris objects. Although the individual errors may be
significant, the results show a generally good agreement with our model prediction and a
small average error