Tag: airfoil
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Fast Estimation of Airfoil Pressure Fields using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Full report link. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods are essential for determining aerodynamic properties of objects across a broad range of disciplines, from motorsport to aviation and civil engineering. CFD approaches fundamentally rely on discritizing fluid volume into a number of very small sections and iteratively solving the Navier-Stokes equations. This process can often take…
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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…