MachUp

A Numerical Lifting-Line Algorithm

Installation

There are currently no installation packages available for MachUp. The source code can be downloaded from the USU Aero Lab's GitHub page and built manually. See instructions below.

Prerequisites

• MinGW (Windows only)
• gcc version 4.9 or higher
• cmake version 3.5 or higher

Getting the Source Code

The source code can be found at https://github.com/usuaero/MachUp

You can either download the source as a ZIP file and extract the contents, or clone the MachUp repository using Git. If your system does not already have a version of Git installed, you will not be able to use this second option unless you first download and install Git. If you are unsure, you can check by typing git --version into a command prompt.

Downloading source as a ZIP file

1. Open a web browser and navigate to https://github.com/usuaero/MachUp
2. Make sure the Branch is set to Master
3. Click the Clone or download button
4. Select Download ZIP
5. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a local directory on your machine

Cloning the Github repository

1. From the command prompt navigate to the directory where MachUp will be installed
2. git clone https://github.com/usuaero/MachUp

Building the executable

Linux / Mac OSX

1. From the command prompt navigate to the MachUp directory
2. cmake [-Dndv=<ndv>]
3. make
4. If successful, the executable (MachUp.out) will be created in the MachUp/bin/ directory

Windows

1. From the command prompt navigate to the MachUp directory
2. cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" [-Dndv=<ndv>]
3. mingw32-make
4. If successful, the executable (MachUp.out.exe) will be created in the MachUp/bin/ directory

Testing the executable

1. From the command prompt navigate to MachUp/examples/FlyingWing/
2. Copy the executable from bin/ to MachUp/examples/FlyingWing/
3. ./MachUp.out input.json (Linux / Mac OSX) or MachUp.out input.json (Windows)