Bug#541351: RFP: xfoil -- Interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic airfoils
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : xfoil
Version : 6.97
Upstream Author : Mark Drela and Harold Youngren
* URL : http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Fortran
Description : Interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic airfoils
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It consists of a collection of menu-driven routines which perform
various useful functions such as:
Viscous (or inviscid) analysis of an existing airfoil, allowing
forced or free transition
transitional separation bubbles
limited trailing edge separation
lift and drag predictions just beyond CLmax
Karman-Tsien compressibility correction
fixed or varying Reynolds and/or Mach numbers
Airfoil design and redesign by interactive modification of surface speed
distributions, in two methods:
Full-Inverse method, based on a complex-mapping formulation
Mixed-Inverse method, an extension of XFOIL's basic panel method
Airfoil redesign by interactive modification of geometric parameters
such as
max thickness and camber, highpoint position
LE radius, TE thickness
camber line via geometry specification
camber line via loading change specification
flap deflection
explicit contour geometry (via screen cursor)
Blending of airfoils
Writing and reading of airfoil coordinates and polar save files
Plotting of geometry, pressure distributions, and multiple polars
NOTE: The program consists of 3 source codes: xfoil, pplot and px_plot.
I have successfully compiled xfoil and pplot with the Fortran GNU
compiler; it gives an error with px_plot and I was unable to contact the
upstream author (I am no expert, maybe it needs a simple fix). I am
aware of a very old debian unofficial package of this software, no
longer maintained. It would be nice to see it in debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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