WISDEM / CCBlade

A blade element momentum method for analyzing wind turbine aerodynamic performance that is robust (guaranteed convergence), fast (superlinear convergence rate), and smooth (continuously differentiable).
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Added flap simulation tools #13

Closed Ben-Mertz closed 3 years ago

Ben-Mertz commented 5 years ago

Added three new functions to the CCAirfoil class: 1) af_flap_coords() which reads in profiles at a given blade station and adds a flap to them according to the yaml file specifications 2) runXfoil() which takes in arbitrary coordinates and produces aerodynamic polars over a range of angles of attack. 3) AFCorrections() which has some overlap in functionality with eval_unsteady() except that it also applies 3D corrections and extrapolates the polars to +-180 deg

Other minor changes were made to the code to mesh with modifications made to RotorSE for incorporating flaps.