I’ve been using PMARC-12 version 5 for the past couple of years to obtain stability derivatives from a blended wing body aircraft. To confirm the geometry was correct and also the solution was valid, I plotted the aircraft in a 3D plotting program, such as TecPlot.
To make it easier to plot, I modified a parsing program written by one of the professors at Iowa State University that was used to create input for a MATLAB script which would then plot the geometry.
ptecparse:
ptecparse is a FORTRAN 90 program designed to parse the PMARC output after it has been run normally. The main goal of this program is to create a TecPlot input file that can then be used to show the aerodynamic data that has been calculated by PMARC, most notably, the pressure coefficient distribution.
pgeoparse:
The grandchild of ptecparse, pgeoparse is a FORTRAN 90 program design to parse the PMARC output file after it has been run as a geometry check only case. The geometry only PMARC option allows a user to input a file and it will create the geometry and then output the data. This parsing program converts that data into a TecPlot data file that can then be plotted to determine if the geometry is correct.
