Category: tools

  • Airfoil Configuration Optimization with Genetic Algorithms

    This article describes the first iteration of a project I did as part of Penn Electric Racing, the University of Pennsylvania’s Formula SAE Electric team. It uses JavaFoil, a panel method solver that we wanted to investigate. Ultimately we switched out JavaFoil for OpenFOAM, a true CFD solver, and had much better results that gave…

  • USGS Terrain Elevation for MATLAB

    Recently some friends and I competed in M3 Challenge, a fourteen-hour competition where teams of five develop a model that addresses a specific, real-world problem. The first section of this year’s challenge was evaluating the risk of flooding for five national parks: Acadia, Cape Hatteras, Kenai Fjords, Olympic, and Padre Island. Part of our solution involved running flood…