Re: Gas Simulation Question

Now my question is, if I simulate a surface moving in this gas
simulator (it did not support surfaces except the cylinder container
which particles recoiled off of), and the surface is a scaled-down
space craft, will drag be accurate?

Spacecraft drag is influenced by charging effects. I remember seeing
papers on this in the 1980s. They did particle in cell computations but
the effects of the electromagnetic field are central to the problem.

One of the authors was Phil Pritchett IIRC.

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ciao,
Bruce

drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/

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