Numerical Study of Parachute-Payload Land Site Distribution with Randomize Wind Gust Model

Abstract

A parachute-payload model with randomize wind gust is developed to study the landing accuracy of the parachute decelerator system, which can be exactly described by the landing site distribution. The research focuses on the steady descent phase of the parachute descent process, so the parachute and the payload suspension formulation during the phase are mainly discussed. In addition, since the wind effects have a significant impact on the land site distribution of the passive decelerator system and it is difficult to obtain the exact wind profile in practice, major features of parachute-payload system are studied via the randomized wind gust formulation. As the randomized wind gust formulation is adopted, the wind effect can be considered without the exact wind gust profile and the parachute aerodynamic simulation can be fulfilled with uncertainties.Finally, the model is validated and discussed, and the parachute land site distributions with different wind randomize profiles are presented for comparison. The results show that when parachute is less stable, the land site tends to have a larger variance.