Welcome to AeroPy’s, an easy to use aerodynamic tool

AeroPy is an library for calculating aerodynamic properties. The main feature of this library is the Python interface with XFOIL. The main objective of this library is to be able to use XFOIL via Python iteratively in a total of 4 lines total (one line for most uses). Through this interface coupling with other softwares (Abaqus, Ansys, etc) is possible and iterative processes (optimization, design sensitivity) are possible. For a thorough explanation please check the documentation and the tutorials.

Contents:

• 1. AeroPy Documentation
• 2. Xfoil Module Documentation
• 3. Aerodynamic Module Documentation
• 4. Airfoil Module Documentation
• 5. Tutorial

To Do

• Include asymmetric wing
• Create airfoil and wing classes

Recommended Collaborations

Please use and adapt this library to your needs. There are several functionalities I wished to implement, but did not have the time. Hence I am strongly recommending the following collaborations:

• Airfoil generator with a GUI
• Atmospheric module (use the library already available in aero_module)
• Extend aero_module for wings with non-constant cross sections

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Examples

A simple example demonstrating how to use AeroPy.

from AeroPy import find_coefficients
find_coefficients(airfoil='naca0012', Reynolds = 1e6, alpha=12.,NACA=True)
>>> {'CM': 0.0134, 'CL': 1.2453, 'Top_Xtr': 0.0194, 'CD': 0.01934, 'CDp': 0.01379, 'alpha': 12.0, 'Bot_Xtr': 1.0}