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I.G. Brykina and G.A. Tirskiy, "Mass loss and light curve of a large meteoroid. Analytical solution," J. Appl. Math. Mech. 81 (5), 395-408 (2017)
Year 2017 Volume 81 Issue 5 Pages 395-408
DOI 10.1016/j.jappmathmech.2018.03.008
Title Mass loss and light curve of a large meteoroid. Analytical solution
Author(s) I.G. Brykina (Institute of Mechanics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, shantii@mail.ru)
G.A. Tirskiy (Institute of Mechanics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
Abstract The interaction of a large meteoroid with the Earth's atmosphere is considered in the case when it moves as a single body and when it moves as a cloud of fragments with a common shock wave. Using the literature data, an expression has been obtained for the radiative heat transfer coefficient per unit area of the midsection of a meteoroid modelled by an oblate spheroid as a function of its velocity, size, the atmospheric density, and its oblateness coefficient. The regions of predominant influence of the convective and radiative fluxes are estimated. An expression is obtained for the drag coefficient of a spheroid. Assuming that the mass of the meteoroid decreases faster than its velocity, analytical solutions of equations of the physical theory of meteors have been obtained for the mass loss of a meteoroid of spheroidal shape, the profile of the light curve, and the altitude at which the maximum of this curve is reached. The fragmentation model, which considers the meteoroid as a cloud of fragments with the spaces between them filled by a vapour, expanding in the lateral directions and flattening in the flight direction with a rate that depends on the degree of expansion is proposed. Using this model and the analytical solutions obtained, the interaction of the Chelyabinsk meteoroid with the atmosphere is considered. Good agreement between the found solution for the profile of the light curve and the observed data-light curves based on different video recordings-is demonstrated down to an altitude of 27 km.
Keywords major axis; free stream velocity; plasticity and yield
Received 04 April 2017
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