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News Release from: Hanley Innovations | Subject: MultiElement Airfoils 4.1
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 16 April 2008
CFD software eases airfoil design
MultiElement Airfoils makes it possible to develop high-lift airfoil sections for takeoff and landing and high-efficiency sections for the cruise configuration.
Hanley Innovations has released MultiElement Airfoils 4.1, a Windows-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that analyses airfoils in any configuration This makes it easier for the designer to develop wings for all modes of operation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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MultiElement Airfoils makes it possible to develop high-lift airfoil sections for takeoff and landing and high-efficiency sections for the cruise configuration, all in a single easy-to use application.
MultiElement Airfoils 4.1 is based on a novel cartesian grid generation procedure for solving the two-dimensional and axisymmetric flow equations.
The software can be used to quickly analyse subsonic, transonic and supersonic flows past multiple airfoils placed at arbitrary locations without the hassles of conventional grid generation.
Version 4.1 features an updated cartesian grid algorithm that is easy to implement and offers enhanced computational accuracy.
The new version also solves the compressible Navier-Stokes for laminar flows in addition to the Euler equations.
The solvers are optimised for the cartesian grid scheme and are used to compute the lift, drag and moment coefficients of multiple and individual airfoil sections.
Also new is the ability to read-in an airfoil shape directly from a CAD drawing in the AutoCad .DXF file format.
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This includes multiple sections for takeoff, efficient sections for the cruise configuration, and the often difficult to analyse sections for landing.
MultiSurface Aerodynamics can be used compute the drag divergent Mach number (Mdd) for multiple airfoil configurations.
This is especially useful for conceptual design of rotor blades and business jet aircraft.
Results are comparable to body-fitted grid solutions.
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