TSFOIL Analysis Interface Module (AIM)
TSFOIL Analysis Interface Module (AIM)
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A module in the Computational Aircraft Prototype Syntheses (CAPS) has been developed to interact (through input files) with the transonic airfoil analysis tool TSFOIL. TSFOIL can be downloaded from http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/MRsoft.html .
Note: In the tsfoil2.f file is may be necessary to comment out line 38 - "USE DFPORT"
An outline of the AIM's inputs and outputs are provided in AIM Inputs and AIM Outputs, respectively.
The accepted and expected geometric representation and analysis intentions are detailed in geomRepIntentTSFOIL.
Upon running preAnalysis the AIM generates two files: 1. "tsfoilInput.txt" which contains instructions for TSFOIL to execute and 2. "caps.tsfoil" which contains the geometry to be analyzed.
TSFOIL inherently assumes the airfoil cross-section is in the x-y plane, if it isn't an attempt is made to automatically rotate the provided body.