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AVL, XFOIL install on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Sep 26 13:47:54 2011
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: alexp@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu, 16.100-instructors@mit.edu, jrcain@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:47:47 -0400
I've installed AVL and XFOIL on Athena. From my message to users:
AVL and XFOIL have been installed on Athena. Both of these are
aerodynamic computational utilities developed at MIT. They are command
line applications, and you will need to study documentation and examples
in order to learn how to use them.
AVL is a program for the aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of
rigid aircraft of arbitrary configuration. It employs an extended vortex
lattice model for the lifting surfaces, together with a slender-body
model for fuselages and nacelles. General nonlinear flight states can
be specified. The flight dynamic analysis combines a full linearization
of the aerodynamic model about any flight state, together with specified
mass properties.
XFOIL is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic
isolated airfoils. It consists of a collection of menu-driven routines
which perform various useful functions such as:
Viscous (or inviscid) analysis of an existing airfoil
Airfoil design and redesign by interactive modification of surface speed
distributions
Airfoil redesign by interactive modification of geometric parameters
Blending of airfoils
Writing and reading of airfoil coordinates and polar save files
Plotting of geometry, pressure distributions, and multiple polars
Documentation files are at:
http://web.mit.edu/avl_doc.txt
http://web.mit.edu/xfoil_doc.txt
To run them:
add aeroutil
avl <parameter file> (to run avl)
xfoil (to run xfoil)
Alex
