"The requested analysis is not supported: XFoil is not part of flow5" – How to link XFOIL to Flow5?

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Paul Uncle asked 5 days ago

As per the title, I am unable to produce any polars within Flow5. Is there a way to link XFOIL to Flow5? And/or do I need XFLR5?

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techwinder Staff answered 5 days ago

Hello,
Until flow5 goes open-source, it cannot be linked to XFoil due to the requirements of the GPL.
The work-around is to generate the polars in xflr5 and import them into flow5 as explained in this page.
https://flow5.tech/docs/flow5_doc/Analysis/Airfoil_viscous_data.html
André

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