Foil section? For foil board

Discussion in 'Hydrodynamics and Aerodynamics' started by Slingshot, Dec 24, 2019.

  1. Erwan
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    Erwan Senior Member

    Revintage,
    You should try XFLR5 available on Sourceforges
    For rookies like me XFOIL is a bit intimidating as it requires DOS commands
    XFLR5 is a Window environment XFOIL, so much more user-friendly
    You download the Selig UIUC database in the same folder, and things become very easy.
    The price is some XFOIL functions are not available, like the Boundary Layer's H parameters.
    Or I was unable to find them.
    You have also airfoil-tools.com or something like that, which is running XFOIL too and nothing to download or unzip.
    The learning curve is not that difficult for most of the XFOIL analysis, a bit more challenging when it comes to full-inverse method.
    The time put at learning this software will be a great investment for your foil designer's life.
    Best of luck
    Erwan
     

  2. revintage
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    revintage Senior Member

    Thanks for the tip Erwan, I have actually downloaded and installed XFLR5 and also spent a few hours digging into it. Had no problem to import my N12FLAT. Need more time though. About H, I think I have found it in the program. It was for that reason I initially wanted to try it. Will have to give it more time.
    About N12FLAT I am already building a 100cm prototype foil for load testing.
     
    Last edited: Jan 24, 2020
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