DRFT Model Illustration (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

DRFT Model Illustration

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Scientists and engineers from MIT and Georgia Tech are enabling near real-time modeling of wheels, tank treads, and desert animals traveling at high speeds across sandy terrains. "Dynamic Resistive Force Theory," or DRFT modeling, illustrated here, provides a blueprint for speedier granular modeling -- and a path to help design better desert vehicles, and Mars and lunar rovers.

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Ken Kamrin and Shashank Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Daniel Goldman and Andras Karsai, Georgia Tech

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