OpenRocket / Feature requests / #3 CFD and the like

#3 CFD and the like

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: Aerodynamic calculation (3)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2009-09-30

Created: 2009-09-28

Creator: Fred_76

Private: No

Some links that may help you :

A CFD GPL software :
http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/

For NACA airfoils, see http://people.clarkson.edu/~pmarzocc/AE429/The%20NACA%20airfoil%20series.pdf

Best regards

Fred

Discussion

Sampo Niskanen - 2009-09-30

Hi,

CFD is certainly something I would like to see in OpenRocket, but it's quite a large undertaking. Airfoils as such are not a significant part of the problem, as few model rockets have specifically shaped fins. I believe xfoil is a 2D CFD engine, and quite different from the required 3D engine.

Elmer (http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer) and OpenFoam (http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/) would probably be better suited building blocks for CFD simulation. If someone has the know-how to use them, I'd be glad to help to get such a simulation method to OpenRocket.

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Sampo Niskanen - 2009-09-30

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