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Year
2015
Volume
25
Issue
4
Pages
534-543
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Section Mechanics
Title The high-precise parametrical equation for the trajectory of a point mass projectile in medium with quadratic drag under head-, tail- or side wind conditions
Author(-s) Chistyakov V.V.abc
Affiliations Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academya, Mozhaisky Military Space Academyb, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Opticsc
Abstract Precise trajectory equation is deduced by using dual-projective variables for a heavy projectile motion in medium with quadratic in speed longitudinal wind. By integration by parts there were received the power type formulas for low angle trajectories with initial slopes $\Theta_0 < 15^{\circ}$. They use the following key parameters of motion, namely $b_0 = \rm{tg}\,\Theta_0$, with $\Theta_0$ as an angle of throwing, $R_a$ as the top curvature radius and $\beta_0$ as dimensionless speed square in the highest point of the trajectory. These formulas for the coordinates and time $x(b)$, $y(b)$, $z(b)$ and $t(b)$ with $b = \rm{tg}\, \Theta$ being the current slope of the trajectory display strongly the effect of self-improving of accuracy due to diminishing of $\beta_0$ with the $b_0$ growing. Their precision when compared to exact integral formulas occurs to consist of 0.1-0.3 %% and this takes place in wide range of wind speeds up to $40\, mps$ and with starting drag forces of $1.15$ $\rm{m\,g}$ value. Due to their simplicity and quasi-algebraic type the formulas may be easily implemented in ballistic calculator, especially for the guns shooting as they moving at high speeds and in moving targets.
Keywords quadratic air drag, head/tail/side wind, projectile, dual-projective coordinates, ballistic, direct fire angle, moving gun, trajectory, parametrical equation
UDC 531.55
MSC 34B15, 34C15, 70E15, 70K75
DOI 10.20537/vm150410
Received 14 September 2015
Language Russian
Citation Chistyakov V.V. The high-precise parametrical equation for the trajectory of a point mass projectile in medium with quadratic drag under head-, tail- or side wind conditions, Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta. Matematika. Mekhanika. Komp'yuternye Nauki, 2015, vol. 25, issue 4, pp. 534-543.
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