Multibody Parachute Flight Simulations for Planetary Entry Trajectories Using "Equilibrium Points"

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003stin...0314795r&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 13th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

Computer Science

Atmospheric Entry, Flight Simulation, Parachutes, Trajectories, Differential Equations, Computerized Simulation, Convergence, Vibration, Rigid Structures, Brakes (For Arresting Motion), Data Processing

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A method has been developed to reduce numerical stiffness and computer CPU requirements of high fidelity multibody flight simulations involving parachutes for planetary entry trajectories. Typical parachute entry configurations consist of entry bodies suspended from a parachute, connected by flexible lines. To accurately calculate line forces and moments, the simulations need to keep track of the point where the flexible lines meet (confluence point). In previous multibody parachute flight simulations, the confluence point has been modeled as a point mass. Using a point mass for the confluence point tends to make the simulation numerically stiff, because its mass is typically much less that than the main rigid body masses. One solution for stiff differential equations is to use a very small integration time step. However, this results in large computer CPU requirements. In the method described in the paper, the need for using a mass as the confluence point has been eliminated. Instead, the confluence point is modeled using an "equilibrium point". This point is calculated at every integration step as the point at which sum of all line forces is zero (static equilibrium). The use of this "equilibrium point" has the advantage of both reducing the numerical stiffness of the simulations, and eliminating the dynamical equations associated with vibration of a lumped mass on a high-tension string.

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