ibl.reference

Provides reference data for boundary layer flows comparisons.

This module provides a variety of classes that provide interfaces to experimental data or computational solutions for boundary layer flows.

Currently, this module provides classes that can provide comparison data from external resources. Currently a small number of experimental cases from the 1968 Stanford Olympics are included, and there is a class that can read a XFOIL dump file and report boundary layer parameters from it.

Stanford Olympics

The 1968 Stanford Turbulence Olympics is the informal name for the Computation of Turbulent Boundary Layers AFOSR-IFP-Stanford Conference that met in 1968. The proceedings are a two volume set with volume I dedicated to the numerical methods used to predict the turbulent boundary layer behavior. Volume II is a currated collection of high quality experimental data of a wide variety of turbulent boundary layer flows.

XFOIL Dump Files

XFoil is a tightly coupled panel code and integral boundary layer solver written by Mark Drela at MIT, (https://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/). The dump files contain all of the information needed to characterize its solution of the integral boundary layer equation results from a solution. See XFOIL’s documentation file for more information.

Classes

XFoilReader

XFoil dump file reader.

XFoilAirfoilData

Data reported for each station on airfoil.

XFoilWakeData

Data reported for each station in wake.

StanfordOlympics1968

Interface to 1968 Stanford Olympics data.

StanfordOlympics1968StationData

Data from Stanford Olympics 1968 reported for each station in flow.

StanfordOlympics1968SmoothVel

Smoothed velocity data information from 1968 Stanford Olympics data.