Re: [Jsbsim-devel] Multi-dimensional tables

[Jon S. B. <jon...@co...>]

> Is this conditional able to cope with the incidence range of
> coefficients decreasing with Mach No?
> 
> By this I mean that, for most aircraft,  at low speed the incidence
> range is quite high, but at high speed the incidence range is much
> lower. It seems silly to populate tables with data that is difficult to
> estimate and will never be used.
> 
> Alan

I'm not sure I understand your question. Any tables defined are standard
JSBSim tables with data suitable for your aircraft. I'm guessing that most
people will not use the capability described in the original post, but for
very large databases derived from extensive wind tunnel testing and/or CFD,
the capability to model aero data higher than 3 dimensions may be needed.
The mechanism for doing that was presented. It is up to the modeler to
decide if that is needed or appropriate. In my case, with a very detailed
aero database that is nearly a quarter million lines long, it is.

Jon