Quasi-Steady Solver
While unsteady simulations are resolved using the reformulated VPM, FLOWUnsteady also provides a quasi-steady solver for low-fidelity simulations. The quasi-steady solver replaces the particle field with semi-infinite rigid wakes in wings and blade-element momentum theory in rotors.
The quasi-steady solver is invoked by simply changing the line
VehicleType = uns.UVLMVehicleto
VehicleType = uns.QVLMVehiclein the previous sections. The results of the quasi-steady solver are shown below, predicted through blade-element momentum theory.
