bomber wrote:There's always pro's and con's...
Javafoil is designed to model airplane airfoils.... it takes in airfoil polars or you can adjust a shape via camber, thickness t/c, and you can use known airfoil manufacturers reference number such as naca to define an airfoil.
It also allows you to add control surfaces, flaps, aileron, elevators, rudder and deflection angles and produces Cl and Cd for that particular shape in that instance.
It's a tool that works for me... I've looked at your suggestion and struggle to understand how to input a known airfoil shape into it.
regards
Simon
I was able to input polars into that software. Airfoil shapes, you cant' input them cause it just does not know what to do with such data.
On the ability to extrapolate polars it looks a cool option, thou.
The reason I'm dubious about java airfoil is -- thinking on the long run -- to create our own JSBsim modeller that takes data on one end and packages the sausage of JSBsim on the other end, well, javafoil wouldn't be amiable in terms of being introduced into the pipeline.
Java vs python kind of problem