Remove Hard coded radius value for lateral acceleration in descent under parachute
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Lateral acceleration for descent under parachute (in the function u_dot_parachute) depends on the air trapped beneath a parachute to determine the mass to divide drag force by. This added mass value depends on the radius R which is hard coded to 1.5 This causes issues with drift distance for smaller rockets and drogue parachutes leading to much higher drift distances than expected
Describe the solution you'd like
Either remove the hard coded value or determine radius based on a hard coded value for the coefficient of drag for a parachute, which is a much more reasonable thing to be hard coded.
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Could you help us providing references?
https://github.com/RocketPy-Team/RocketPy/blob/2655a4f955be626d6174547a39998b58c0b8aeda/rocketpy/simulation/flight.py#L1969-L1995
@RyanSamF when I say "reference", I was actually meaning "bibliometric references". I'm going to search about it.
I have to investigate it better, but I think @ArthurJWH has already solved this one with his recent modifications to the parachute class
The main reference for parachute modeling is: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA247666.pdf