When dealing with aircraft aerodynamics, we need a deterministic way to define flight conditions. Thus, a model for pressure, temperature and density at any altitude is provided by the international standard atmosphere.
SU2 6.2.0 for Raspbian Buster
Fancy doing some cool CFD with your Raspberry? Then, you must try the SU2 solver! Download here the pre-compiled version for Raspbian.
Perfect shape! Aerodynamics and optimisation together
Aerodynamicists are always looking for the best aerodynamic shape when designing something new. However, what makes a shape the best one? For example, when designing a new aircraft, what’s make a specific wing planform the best possible? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to this simple question.
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Projectile motion with Kepler!
Projectile motion is found in every physics book but usually its equations are for a projective travelling in vacuum. What about include air drag and solving the resulting differential equation in a very simple way?
Flight dynamics, interactively!
It’s possible to match two interesting things: flight dynamics and interactive programming with Python. The magic tool we’re going to use is called Jupyter Notebook. Basically, it’s Python programming done with our favourite web browser.
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Longitudinal Flight Dynamics!
Flight dynamics is a fancy name to indicate the study of motion and performance of aircraft. Describing mathematically the motion of aeroplanes is a very complex matter! The starting point is the classical mechanics and the assumption of rigid motion. However, since aeroplanes can accelerate, decelerate, change trajectory and so on, the equations must be written in a particular way.