Airfoil Generator

Airfoil Generator is an airfoil generation program written in Python using Tkinter for the interface. The goal is to provide an easy to use cross-platform airfoil generator for multipe airfoil families that are widely used in R/C and General Aviation applications.

Planned development is to implement a flow solver to asses how the airfoil will perform under your conditions.

[REMOVE?]With the addition of the RW airfoil series, a series that I developed, one could use this program for race-car or ultra low speed aircraft airfoils due to some of the series having highly cambered shapes.[REMOVE?]



Program as of 09/22/2007

Hosting will either be Google Code or SourceForge.

License:

  • Not yet chosen

Requires:

  • Python
  • Tkinter

Installation:

  • Program is not yet released, no instructions

TODO:

  • Add Documentation to the Help Menu
  • Integrate a flow solver to provide flowfield data about airfoil
    • Hopefully implement a viscous panel method
      • Faster than full blown CFD
      • Don’t need a grid generator, although I have one
    • Plot streamlines over the airfoil
    • Ability to specify incoming velocity and corresponding atmospheric data
    • Force (Lift and Drag) print out