[OLAF] Implementation of a source panel method
This pull request is a draft
Feature or improvement description
- Adds source panels to OLAF to model walls, and bodies of arbitrary shapes, provided they are not moving or being deformed elastically.
- Allows the AeroDyn driver to be run with 0 blades (i.e. just source panels)
- Improved VTK reading and writting
Impacted areas of the software AeroDyn / OLAF
Supporting information
- Basic induced velocity calculation placed in
FVW_BiotSavart.f90 - Main source panel routines placed in
FVW_Subswith the suffix:srcPnl_ - All data stored into type
T_SrcPanl*similar toT_SgmtandT_Part.
Test results, if applicable
A unittest is included as part of FVW_Tests to check that the Cp of a sphere match the analytical value.
- [x] Input file documentation, live version here
- [ ] Potential r-test of a sphere
- [ ] Acknowledge sponsor Accelerate Wind in source code, and potential banner when Src Panel used.
@ebranlard Has the sphere unit test been added already, or is that still to be completed?
@ebranlard Has the sphere unit test been added already, or is that still to be completed?
The r-test for the potential flow about a sphere is now added, see here
One of the regression tests is failing due to an incomplete preceding test (restart case). This is unrelated to the changes here.
Thank you for the fast turnaround!