T2 calculate reference area

[fly1998-sky]

When flow5 performs the T2 operation, I found through numerical calculation that the wing area involved in the operation is not the exposed area but the entire wing area.

[techwinder]

Yes, that's the intent. The area used to calculate the aerodynamic coefficient is a reference area, not a physical area.
flow5 provides a convenience method to set it using the wing's area and ignoring the part covered by the fuselage, but you can set a custom area if you prefer.

[fly1998-sky]

Thank you for your response.Will Flow5 add the aerodynamics of the propeller in future updates?

[techwinder]

No plan to add a propeller design module, if that is what you have in mind, nor to add a model for the propeller in the plane module.
André

[shubhamtamboli]

Hey Techwinder,

Can you please provide some documentation/tutorial/examples for sail design module in flow5?
Also, is the example script provided on the website by the name, "boat_script.xml" for scripting is all we need ?
Are you planning to release the python API for flow5 ?

[techwinder]

1. Documentation, tutorials and examples are linked on the flow5.tech web page.
2. You'll also need xml definitions for boats and polars
3. No
   André

[shubhamtamboli]

Thanks for the help André !

[shubhamtamboli]

Can you please tell me how to script flow5 plane design module ? (not batch analysis)
I want to include flow5 as an aerodynamic solver in my custom optimization pipeline.