Flight, Optimization, and Wind Laboratory
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Flight, Optimization, and Wind Laboratory
© 2024. All rights reserved.
Packages on the curated list must meet a minimum lab standard for documentation, testing, and review. Guidelines for package development are available here.
Aerodynamics
| Package | Description | Maintainer(s) |
| FLOWPanel | Three-dimensional panel code | Eduardo Alvarez |
| FLOWUnsteady | Mid/high fidelity aerodynamics with VLM, CCBlade, and a vortex particle method. Also integrates with several acoustic codes. | Eduardo Alvarez |
| FLOWVPM | Meshless large eddy simulation using our reformulated vortex particle method. | Eduardo Alvarez |
| VortexLattice | A vortex lattice method with both horseshoe vortices and vortex rings. | Taylor McDonnell and Andrew Ning |
| CCBlade | A robust blade element momentum method for propellers and wind turbines. | Andrew Ning |
| Xfoil.jl | A Julia wrapper to MIT’s Xfoil | Taylor McDonnell |
| FLOWFarm.jl | Wind farm aerodynamics and layout optimization | Jared Thomas and P.J. Stanley |
Optimization and Math
| Package | Description | Maintainer(s) |
| ImplicitAD | Wrapper to make implicit functions compatible with AD without differentiating inside the solvers. | Andrew Ning |
| SNOW | A convenient common interface to various optimizers (Snopt and Ipopt) and derivative computation methods for nonlinear, sparse, gradient-based optimization problems. | Andrew Ning |
| Snopt.jl | Julia wrapper to Snopt v7 to expose all inputs/outputs/functionality of SnOptA | Andrew Ning |
| FLOWMath | A collection of math routines (Brent’s method for root finding, akima spline interpolation, etc.) | Andrew Ning and Taylor McDonnell |
Other
| Package | Description | Maintainer(s) |
| GXBeam | Geometrically exact beam theory, linear/nonlinear static, eigenvalue, and time marching dynamic analyses for highly flexible (composite) beams. Finite element section analysis for general composite sections with strain recovery. | Taylor McDonnell and Andrew Ning |
| SixDOF | A nonlinear six degree of freedom dynamics model, particularly for aircraft | Andrew Ning |
| Mex.jl | Allows Julia to be called from Matlab (and embedded Julia to call Matlab). |
A full list of open source codes are available on our GitHub organization page in various stages of development: https://github.com/byuflowlab
We have also created or contributed to many tools in the NREL WISDEM organization: https://github.com/WISDEM