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New Scaling Law Predicts How Wheels Drive Over Sand


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Driving through sand

Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand.

Credit: The researchers

When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on model planes that have been scaled down to fit inside a wind tunnel.

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