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Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling |
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Soft Landing of a G-12 Cargo Parachute with Multistage PMA RetractionsCDT Patrick Peirce, USMA
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Principal Investigator: This project is part of a research effort by the T*AFSM in collaboration with US Army Natick Soldier Center. The objective in this project is to study the effect of multistage Pneumatic Muscle Actuator (PMA) retractions on soft landing a G-12 cargo parachute. We investigated how a sequence of retracting and holding the PMA's affected both the drag and descent speed of the parachute. 
Figure 1. Close-up of PMAs at four different times during the simulation. 
Figure 2. Vorticity field around G-12. |
