CCBlade Documentation

Summary: A blade element momentum method for propellers and turbines.

Author: Andrew Ning

Features:

• Prandtl hub/tip losses
• Glauert/Buhl empirical region for high thrust turbines
• Convenience functions for inflow with shear, precone, yaw, tilt, and azimuth
• Allows for flow reversals (negative inflow/rotation velocities)
• Allows for a hover condition (only rotation, no inflow) and rotor locked (no rotation, only inflow)
• Methodology is provably convergent (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.1636 although multiple improvements have been made since then)
• Compatible with AD tools like ForwardDiff

Installation:

pkg> add https://github.com/byuflowlab/CCBlade.jl