Coupled Boundary Layer Theory / Potential Theory Boundary Element Method solver
for the incompressible flow around an airfoil
sfoglie is a MATLAB port of the subsonic airfoil development system XFOIL by M. Drela, originally written in F77. sfoglie ports most (yet not all) of the XFOIL functionalities and adds a few, most notably the possibility to add a wall-normal velocity distribution along the profile chord, which simulates flow control by blowing or suction. One missing features compared to XFOIL is the solution of the aerodynamic inverse problem.
The file documentation.pdf contains a description of the program and usage instruction. If you are in a hurry and want to start quickly, just run main.m in MATLAB and see the output!
Dr. Davide Gatti
davide.gatti [at] kit.edu
msc.davide.gatti [at] gmail.com
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Fluid Dynamics
Kaiserstraße 10
76131 Karlsruhe
If you use this code and find it helpful, please cite:
M.Reder, A. Stroh and D. Gatti, "Preliminary study of flow control via uniform blowing on airfoils with a boundary element method", Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, (submitted, 2018)