Suppression mechanism study of attached apex drogue on undesirable inflation phenomena

Abstract

At present, the studies of suppression effect of attached apex drogue on undesirable inflation were seriously dependent on experiments. The experiments were difficult to reveal the suppression mechanism due to the difficulty of data collection. In this paper, a FSI (Fluid Structure Interaction) model based on explicit finite element method was proposed to study the suppression mechanism. The graphical deformation method was used to realize the movement of computational domain. At the same time, the velocity conditions were applied on the boundaries of computational domain, which was used to simulate the external wind field. The coupling between the fluid and structure described by Lagrangian meshes was realized by contact algorithm. Finally, an extra-large parachute was taken as the research object, and the suppression mechanism of attached apex drogue was analyzed according to the numerical results. The effect of different attached apex drogues with different resistance characteristics also was analyzed by the above FSI model. The analysis model and method proposed in this paper could provide the design basis of extra-large parachute.