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News Release from: Hanley Innovations | Subject: MultiElement Airfoils
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 31 October 2002
Software simplifies aerodynamics
Dr Hanley's Aerodynamics: MultiElement Airfoils is a user-friendly software package for the conceptual design and analysis of airfoils and bodies in close proximity to each other.
Dr Hanley's Aerodynamics: MultiElement Airfoils is a user-friendly software package for the conceptual design and analysis of airfoils and bodies in close proximity to each other MultiElement Airfoils runs on a PC under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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MultiSurface Aerodynamics is a Windows based software package for rapid aerodynamics conceptual and preliminary analysis and design of wings and other lifting surfaces.
MultiElement Airfoils is intended for use as a conceptual design/analysis tool for the professional engineering and educational communities.
The software can be used to rapidly create 2D models and generate insight into many relevant engineering problems.
For example, high-lift wing configurations, racing-car spoilers in ground effect, biplane wings, double keel/rudder configurations, hydrofoils in shallow water, sail interactions and many other problems can be easily modelled with this tool.
A unique feature of MultiElement Airfoils is the Interactive AirfoilEditor.
AirfoilEditor allows users to add an airfoil to any location in the flow field simply by double-clicking at the desired location.
A pop-up dialog box allows users to select from NACA 4, 5 and 6-digit airfoils, the UIUC airfoil database library or their own custom shapes.
Airfoils can be rotated to any independent angle, scaled, flipped or given a number of attributes to facilitate the solution or flow visualisation.
Airfoils already in the flow field can be edited or deleted by double-clicking on the shapes.
MultiElement Airfoils produces graphs of the surface pressure coefficient and velocity ratio for each airfoil.
It can also graph the lift, drag and moment coefficients versus angle of attack and the lift-drag polar for a complete array of airfoils.
A screen copy of the graphs can be printed, saved as bitmap files (.bmp) or copied to the clipboard and pasted into any MS Windows application.
MultiElement Airfoils can also produce a table of results at each angle of attack which can be printed or saved on disk.
The introductory price of the software is $995.
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