A Debris Backwards Flow Simulation System for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

摘要

This paper presents a system based on a Two-Way Particle-Tracking Model toanalyze possible crash positions of flight MH370. The particle simulatorincludes a simple flow simulation of the debris based on a Lagrangian approachand a module to extract appropriated ocean current data from netCDF files. Theinfluence of wind, waves, immersion depth and hydrodynamic behavior are notconsidered in the simulation.