Flight-Mech

License

This software has been developed by Paul Creusy and is shared under the MIT License.

Getting started

Installation

Pip installation

To install this module with pip, please use:

pip install flight-mech

Manual installation

For a manual installation, please clone the repository and install the required Python libraries using the command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Documentation

The documentation is available online here.

Otherwise, if you decided to clone the repository, you can generate the documentation using the following commands:

cd docs
make html

And open the file docs/_build/html/index.html in your browser.

Functionalities

This software includes various modules to build a numerical plane model and compute its characteristics. The modules implemented are the following:

• aerodynamics : contains functions to compute quantities in the boundary layer of a fluid flow.
• airfoil : allows to define the geometry of an airfoil and compute the lift and moment coefficients.
• atmosphere : defines several atmosphere models to compute density, temperature, pressure and other quantities.
• environment : defines environmental quantities such as gravity.
• fuel : defines several types of broadly used fuels in aeronautics.
• gas : defines several gas models to compute their properties.
• maneuver : allows to define maneuvers for a plane model.
• motor : defines an electric motor model.
• plane : allows to define a numerical plane model, binding the previous modules, to compute its flight characteristics.
• turbine : allows to define several types of turbine to compute their thrust and consumption at various operating conditions.
• wing : allows to define the geometry of a wing and compute the lift and drag coefficients.