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[OLAF] Implementation of a source panel method

Open ebranlard opened this issue 5 months ago • 1 comments

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_Subs with the suffix: srcPnl_
  • All data stored into type T_SrcPanl* similar to T_Sgmt and T_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 avatar Aug 05 '25 23:08 ebranlard

@ebranlard Has the sphere unit test been added already, or is that still to be completed?

hkross avatar Oct 31 '25 21:10 hkross

@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

ebranlard avatar Dec 19 '25 01:12 ebranlard

One of the regression tests is failing due to an incomplete preceding test (restart case). This is unrelated to the changes here.

andrew-platt avatar Dec 19 '25 18:12 andrew-platt

Thank you for the fast turnaround!

ebranlard avatar Dec 19 '25 22:12 ebranlard