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SUAVE is a conceptual level aircraft design environment built with the ability to analyze and optimize both conventional and unconventional designs. This capability is achieved in part by allowing analysis information for aircraft to be drawn from multiple sources. Many other software tools for aircraft conceptual design rely on fixed empirical ...
Tutorials. These are tutorials for SUAVE. The tutorials will then help you get started with SUAVE. We recommend starting with the Boeing 737-800 tutorial and then moving to the Regional Jet Optimization or the Turbofan Network tutorial. These will allow you to explore the capabilities of SUAVE. If you haven't already downloaded the latest ...
Download and extract the release archive. Open the directory SUAVE/trunk. Open a command prompt in that directory. Run this command: python3 setup.py install. If you are on a linux or mac, you may need to run. sudo python3 setup.py install. Change to any other folder, open a python shell, and test the new module with the command import SUAVE.
Open a command prompt, in a directory that you want to start the repository (for example in the SUAVE_Project folder), and run the git clone command. git clone <git url>. Now you should have the source code. Change directory into the trunk folder and run a developer installation command. python3 setup.py develop.
Next is the SUAVE imports. SUAVE is imported directly first, which allows us to grab individual SUAVE classes later on without importing each one at the top. Next, the Data and Units modules are imported. Data is a SUAVE-specific data structure that operates much like a dictionary but has some special features as described in the comments.
Documentation. SUAVE is fully documented through doxygen. However, some starter high level documentation is available on the left. We suggestion you read the high level information before jumping into the Doxygen based documentation. Download. Registration.
2. Units_type set to 'SI' (default) or 'Imperial'. 3. Boolean for whether or not to compute fuselage finenesses (default = True). 4. Boolean for whether or not to use the scaling from OpenVSP (default = True). Outputs: Writes SUAVE fuselage, with these geometries: (all defaults are SI, but user may specify Imperial) Fuselages.Fuselage.
This imports an airfoil geometry from a text file and stores. the coordinates of upper and lower surfaces as well as the mean. camberline. Assumptions: Works for Selig and Lednicer airfoil formats. Automatically detects which format based off first line of data. Assumes it is one of those two.
Modules. Functions to perform calculations according to AERODAS models. Functions to AVL calculations. These are methods that are used by several analyses. Gas Dynamics methods that are directly specified by analyses. Functions to perform low-fidelity calculations. Functions to perform lifting line calculations.
Translates wing geometry from the vehicle setup to AVL format Assumptions: None Source: None Inputs: suave_wing.tag [-] suave_wing.symmetric [boolean] suave_wing.verical [boolean] suave_wing - passed into the populate_wing_sections function [data stucture] Outputs: w - aircraft wing in AVL format [data stucture] Properties Used: N/A
