Hereafter you will find the teaching and support material used in the numerical labs. The material corresponds to the 2022/2023 academic year.

• Presentations.
• Practical computational aerodynamics. Introduction to aerodynamic design and analysis.
• Anatomy of airfoils and their performance.
• XFOIL - Executive introduction.
• Anatomy of the wing and its performance.
  • Crash introduction to the LLT method - Working example.
  • Wing design using the LLT method - The PA-28 Cherokee case.
  • Wing design - General guidelines.
• Brief introduction to CFD.
• Workflow of a CFD simulation.
• Brief overview of turbulence modeling in CFD.

• Video tutorials.
• Introduction to XFOIL.
  • Youtube playlist.
• Introduction to XFLR5.
  • Youtube playlist.
• Introduction to Ansys Fluent (student version). Flow past a NACA 0012 airfoil.
  • Part 1. Introduction - General workflow.
  • Part 2. Geometry generation, mesh generation, case setup, launching the simulation, and post-processing.
  • Part 3. Final remarks.

• Lifting-line theory - LLT applications.
• LLT excel spreadsheet.
• LLT jupyter notebook.
  • Open the Jupyter Notebook in nbviewer.

• Additional support material.
• Small collection of airfoil coordinates to be used with XFOIL.
• XFLR5 sample cases (including the PA-28 Cherokee wing design case).
• Sample Ansys Workbench and Ansys Fluent cases.
  • Reading in airfoil coordinates in Ansys Design Modeler - Format of input file.
  • NACA 0012 (2D case) - Workbench case.
  • NACA 0012 (2D case) - Airfoil coordinates in Ansys format.
  • NACA 0012 (2D case) - Validation references.
  • Sivells wing (3D case) - Geometry and mesh.
  • Sivells wing (3D case) - Ansys Fluent case.
  • Sivells wing (3D case) - Validation references.

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