CONCLUSIONS
The goal of the project was achieved. We developed a tool that is easy to use because of the graphical user interface of the application and allows one to visualize very fast different flows around an airfoil. This will help a designer to make a quick decission if a design is performing well in conditions other than the design conditions. Although we were not concerned with the interpretation of the flows obtained with this tool for the example flow, we observed the development of a pressure buble immetiatly after the pressure peak.
As mentioned earlier this is an evolving project that will grow and
improve with time. It was clear from the begining that it will not
be fished by the end of the course. A plan of future improvements already
exists. The new procedures that will be added to the programm will be :
- Procedure for calculating and displaying the stream lines.
- Procedure for creating Postscript files of the images.
- Procedures that will allow the processing of sensitivities other than the sensitivities with respect to the AoA and Ma-number.
- Procedure that will read the binary files producesed by the flow solver and the optimazation routine.
- Procedure that will alllow the user to zoom in and out to regions of interest.
RECOMENTATIONS FOR THE CLASS :
A better presentation of the visualisation tools such as AVS, PV-WAVE,
etc would be desirable. More exercises concerning the above software
packages would be also helpful.
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