{"id":275,"date":"2015-10-12T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T03:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2015-10-12T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:02:40","slug":"discrete-vortex-panel-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/discrete-vortex-panel-solver\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrete Vortex Panel Solver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace engineers encounter vortex methods as undergraduates. The famous thin airfoil theory is a continuous vortex sheet. The famous XFOIL is a panel method with an IBL solver for viscous effects.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Can a simple discrete vortex method capture thickness?<\/p>\n<p>A: Yes, but I would recommend a linear vortex method instead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_276\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-image-276 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10-300x153.png\" alt=\"naca4412a10\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10.png 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NACA 4412 at 10 degrees: 200 Elements<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_279\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"wp-image-279 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10coarse-300x153.png\" alt=\"naca4412a10coarse\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10coarse-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/naca4412a10coarse.png 506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NACA 4412 at 10 degrees: 16 Elements<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The source code and executable are available <a href=\"http:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/code\/dvort\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The visualization is a pure Fortran library exporting to scalable vector graphics (.svg).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace engineers encounter vortex methods as undergraduates. The famous thin airfoil theory is a continuous vortex sheet. The famous XFOIL is a panel method with an IBL solver for viscous effects. Q: Can a simple discrete vortex method capture thickness? A: Yes, but I would recommend a linear vortex method instead. The source code and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}