flow5 v7 - Documentation

Updated August 29, 2024

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Purpose

To initiate an online documentation for flow5, focusing first on user questions and comments, and on the most recently introduced features.
The intent is to enrich and improve this document over time, with the long term goal of reorganizing it into a theory reference document and a user manual.

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Contents

• Modelling
  • Planes defined by external STL meshes
  • Fuselage from CAD files
  • Wing strips
  • Panel bunching
  • Elevator position and pitching moment
  • Other recommendations
  • Advancing front surface mesher
  • Connecting the fuselage and wing meshes
• Analysis
  • Airfoil viscous data
  • Building_blocks of the panel method
  • The flat wake panel model
  • The Vortex Particle Wake
  • Linear combinations
  • Type 5 "beta" polars
  • Type 8 polars
  • Ground effect
  • Far-field vs. on-body forces
  • Error messages
  • Lift evaluation in the case of thin and thick surfaces
  • Frames and axes
  • Moments
  • Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization
  • 3d inverse design
• Sails and sailboats
  • Sails in flow5
  • Sails imported from STEP and STL files
  • Thick solid sails: the windsurf example
  • True wind and apparent wind
• Validation
  • Validation - Galerkin method
  • The Jibe2 experiment
  • The Fujin sailboat experiment
  • Type 5 beta polars
  • Stability and control derivatives
  • Hydrofoils: NASA Report 1232
• Post-processing
  • Part forces
  • Cp coefficients
• UI
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Graph export to SVG images
  • Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
  • OpenGL settings
• Step by step tutorials
  • Vortex Particle Wake
  • Stability analyses
  • Batch analyses
• Performance, Intel MKL and multithreading
  • Performance, Intel MKL and multithreading
• Release information
  • v7.24
  • v7.22
  • v7.12
  • v7.01 beta 11
  • v7.01 beta 09
  • v7.01 beta 08
• Theory
  • Galerkin methods
  • Panel integrals

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