From Sam: http://evilprojects.net/temp/Sikorsky%20Prize.pdf -- keeping in mind that I am roughly an order of magnitude below you in terms of applying math and physics, how would a person even begin to model such scenario -- with the eventual goal of turning a design into a mechanical engineering and materials science problem.
John: Holy Jeebas, that is so far away from geology...I have no words. NASA created a multi billion dollar facility to first build ridiculously full scale wind tunnels and then insanely hot computer mainframes to model stuff like this. Ames Research center. The first time I visited Ames I was detained by the ARC security staff... For having a pellet rifle and a Brazillian Rambo knife in my car. They eventually let me in to do experiments.
Don't be silly about the math skills. You are typing at a geologist here. My professional math skills ended at Algebra 2 and Trig. A fella can do a surprising amount of science with a solid algebra and trig background.
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