Volume 4, Issue 11 (November 2017), Pages: 1-10

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Original Research Paper

Title:  Prediction of the trajectory of an irregularly shaped body moving through a resistive medium with high velocities

Author(s):  Elvedin Kljuno *, Alan Catovic

Affiliation(s):

Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.011.001

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Abstract:

A model was made for prediction of the trajectory of an irregularly shaped body moving through a resistive medium with high velocities, using data for aerodynamic forces obtained from numerical simulations. For a different orientation of the body with respect to the velocity vector of the center of mass, the aerodynamic resistance force is different for two reasons: the exposed surface area is different and the shape is different. In this regard, 216 numerical simulations of airflow around of the body of an irregularly shaped body in different orientations were carried out, for one full rotation (around one axis of rotation) of the body, with angular increments of 15 (0 -360), for the following velocities: 0.6, 0.8, 1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 Mach. The outcome of these simulations is the resistance forces and aerodynamic moments as the result of motion of the body in various directions relatively to the body. After the simulations had been performed, the results of the resistance forces and aerodynamic moments were used to integrate the equations of motion with an assumption that the irregularly shaped body had a continuous rotation all the way along the trajectory with relatively high angular velocities. With this assumption, an effective aerodynamic force was calculated which takes into consideration that the aerodynamic force varies due to the rotation of the body. The results show that the trajectory of an irregularly shaped body is curved in space because the side component of the aerodynamic force cannot be ignored because of the irregular shape of the body, which leads to significant lateral movement of the body from the initial direction of flight. 

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Dynamics, Modelling, Trajectory estimation, Aerodynamic force

Article History: Received 29 June 2017, Received in revised form 4 September 2017, Accepted 5 September 2017

Digital Object Identifier: 

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.011.001

Citation:

Kljuno E and Catovic A (2017). Prediction of the trajectory of an irregularly shaped body moving through a resistive medium with high velocities. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(11): 1-10

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