Re: [Sailcut-users] Sailcut program - dimension change

[Sheldon H. <she...@gm...>]

Any publicly available RANS simulators out there? I'm looking at OpenFOAM, but would cheerfully use an existing adaptation 

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> On Mar 19, 2017, at 7:22 AM, Robert Lainé <rob...@sa...> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I suggest that 4 decimals is more than enough. On 1 square meter area it 
> is 1 square centimeter accuracy.
> 
> I am going to update sailcut with that as soon as I have a Windows 
> compiler... Meanwhile you can tweak the code.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert LAINÉ
> 
>> On 15/03/2017 23:11, pa...@tm... wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:40:12 +0100
>> Miroslav <mi...@gm...> wrote:
>> 
>>> Don, this is exactly what I want to say for the sail area, I need more precision and more decimals and no matter in what scale, meter or centimetres are.
>> Hi,
>> 
>> You could always modify the program to suit your needs. That's the beauty of open source :) The area value is rounded in the last line of the Area() method of sailworker.cpp. If you change it from
>> 
>>     return ( .01 * floor(surface /10000) );
>> 
>> to
>> 
>>     return ( .0001 * floor(surface /100) );
>> 
>> that would give you 2 extra digits of precision - 4 in total. If that's not enough, changing it to
>> 
>>     return ( .000001 * floor(surface ));
>> 
>> would give you 6 digits of precision.
>> 
>> Hope this helps
>> 
> 
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