pyfoil

A library to read, create, modify and analyze airfoils in Python

features

• read .dat files
• airfoil generators:
  • naca
  • joukowsky
  • treffz
  • vandevooren
  • web (selig db)
• modify airfoils
  • resample
  • normalize
  • get points
  • get/set thickness
  • get/set camber
• analyze airfoils (c++/pybind11 xfoil lib included)
  • this was extracted from xflr5
  • GPL-V3

A major convention is that a local coordinate-system is ranging from x=-1 (upper back) towards the nose (x=0) towards the lower back (x=+1)

example

see example.ipynb