pytornado.aero package

Submodules

pytornado.aero.vlm module

Module contents

The aero package contains the Python modules and C/C++ libraries used in the calculation of aerodynamic loads using the Vortex-Lattice Method.

The aero.vlm module contains the Python functions that prepare and pre-allocate the aircraft, state and lattice data for the C wrapper functions contained in aero.c_vlm.

The aero.c_vlm file contains the wrapper functions required to interpret and operate on incoming data from Python and NumPy, using the native APIs. From here, calls are made to the pure-C subroutines for the Vortex-Lattice Method calculations. These are contained in separate files:

• aero.c_lattice:lattice generation
• aero.c_downwash:  calculation of the downwash coefficients
• aero.c_boundary:  calculation of the right-hand side terms
• aero.c_results:calculation of velocities, forces, coefficients

The .cpp and .h files must be compiled to a dynamic library c_vlm.so or c_vlm.dll, manually or using the provided Makefile.