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Avian Glider Development

PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2024 8:30 am
by Bob Kuczewski

Re: Avian Glider Development

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2024 4:22 am
by Bob Kuczewski
According to the video, the development work is open source and available at: https://gitlab.com/HG-dev.

For anyone not familiar with downloading from GitLab, I've attached a ZIP file below of the current version. To save space, this ZIP file contains only the current version (28.6 MB) and does not include the GIT history. The full version (with GIT history) is 95.8 MB, and can be downloaded from the GitLab repository mentioned above.

I am not familiar with the tools they are using, and I haven't looked closely at the data files yet. But I believe they are using open source tools that can be downloaded per their instructions. I've just done a quick scan and the required software seems to include:

  • FreeCAD and sail-making macros
  • OpenVSP with the API installed
  • Jupyter Lab or Notebook with the VSP kernel accessible
  • InfluxDB database
  • Open Modelica

 

Re: Avian Glider Development

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2024 6:30 am
by Bob Kuczewski
I dug through some of the files and found these airfoil cross-section files:

aerodynamic-modelling/data/aerofoils/ui1720reflex.csv
aerodynamic-modelling/data/aerofoils/ui1720mod.csv
aerodynamic-modelling/data/aerofoils/2R15section.csv
aerodynamic-modelling/data/aerofoils/tipsection.csv


I wrote a quick plotting program (in Python/TKinter) to display them:

ui1720reflex_2024-06-20_06-04-49.png
ui1720reflex_2024-06-20_06-04-49.png (4.94 KiB) Viewed 741 times
ui1720mod_2024-06-20_06-04-05.png
ui1720mod_2024-06-20_06-04-05.png (4.95 KiB) Viewed 741 times
2R15section_2024-06-20_06-03-18.png
2R15section_2024-06-20_06-03-18.png (4.72 KiB) Viewed 741 times
tipsection_2024-06-20_06-02-08.png
tipsection_2024-06-20_06-02-08.png (4.06 KiB) Viewed 741 times