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Trim drag example doesn't do what it says

Open bbrelje opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Description

The drag_polar.py example purports to have a trim drag option that can be toggled. However, it uses the OM BalanceComp to achieve this, but it doesn't have a Newton solver with which to drive the balance comp, so in effect it does nothing at all and the trim calc is wrong / not happening.

Steps to reproduce issue

Run drag_polar.py with trim drag turned on

Current behavior

CM not being balanced by tail rotation

Expected behavior

CM balanced to 0 by tail rotation

bbrelje avatar Jan 26 '21 13:01 bbrelje

The tail is too small to actually trim the airplane at appreciable angles of attack. The Newton solver wants huge tail rotations at the outer edges of the polar

bbrelje avatar Jan 26 '21 13:01 bbrelje