Python program to calculate drag force against a cyclist
The following is the program for calculating drag forces against a cyclist, although it depends on various factors like frontal area, velocity, shape of that object which decides its drag coefficient.
In the program I took some of the default values for the same and put it into the formula to gain the results.
The program goes like this
#Program for calculating drag force against a cyclist
#by Tarun Gupta
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#Inputs
#Frontal_Area(m2)
A=1.75
#Density(kg/m3)
d=1.12
#function to plot drag forces vs velocity
#Velocity(m2)
v=[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
#Drag_Coefficient
cd=0.75
drag_forces=[]
for velocity in v:
drag_forces.append((0.5*A*d*cd*velocity*velocity))
plt.plot(drag_forces,v)
plt.ylabel('velocity')
plt.xlabel('drag force')
plt.title('Drag force vs Velocity')
plt.show()
#function to plot drag force vs drag coefficient
#Velocity(m2)
V=4
#Drag_coefficient
c_d=[0.25,0.75,1.25,1.5,2.25,3,3.25,4]
dragforces=[]
for drag in c_d:
dragforces.append((0.5*A*d*drag*V*V))
plt.plot(drag_forces,c_d)
plt.ylabel('Drag coefficient')
plt.xlabel('Drag force')
plt.title('Drag force vs Drag coefficient')
plt.show()
The above are the results shown in the form of the graph displaying different values of the velocity and drag coefficient to calculate the drag forces acting upon the cyclist.
Thankyou.