Panel Flow

Screencast of Transient Air Flow Over a Pitching Wing

symscape — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:13:44 +0000

This screencast shows an entire simulation performed using our Caedium Professional add-on; starting with geometry creation, motion specification, and physics definition, and finishing with transient 3D pressure coefficient contours on the wing surface. Using our intuitive drag-and-drop tools you'll see how simple and easy it is to simulate air flow within our Caedium unified simulation environment.

DLR F4 Wing-Body Calculation

symscape — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:22:49 +0000

The DLR F4 is an idealized wing-body model of a passenger jetliner, such as the Boeing 737, that was tested in multiple wind tunnels for comparison with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations.

Boeing 737Image courtesy of Adrian Pingstone

NLR 7301 Multi-Element Airfoil Calculation

symscape — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:34:00 +0000

Multi-element airfoils are common sights on open-wheel racing cars and aircraft during take-off and landing.

Honda Formula 1 Car: Multi-element airfoils at front and rear

NACA 4415 Airfoil Calculation

symscape — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:00:51 +0000

Rotor blade design is a key element in determining the efficiency of a wind turbine. A crucial precursor to a final rotor blade design is to select one or more 2D airfoil sections to form a smooth blade profile. A wind tunnel study of a 2D airfoil (NACA 4415), typical of an airfoil used by wind turbine rotors, is compared with predictions made by our Panel Flow add-on.

Potential Flow Around an Ellipsoid

symscape — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:06:36 +0000

Comparing a computation for the flow around an ellipsoid from our Panel Flow add-on with exact analytic potential theory is a good test (or verification) of our panel method implementation.

Potential Flow Around a Sphere

symscape — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:05:42 +0000

Comparing a computation for the flow around a sphere from our Panel Flow add-on with exact analytic potential theory is a good test (or verification) of our panel method implementation.