Pre-meeting: Questions

Esther: show me the twist optimisation magic !! never got around to figuring it out

Nick:

• Dynamic Stability
  • Demonstrate how to create a run case file
  • Demonstrate how to create a mass file
  • Demonstrate how to create a geometry file/how to generate geometry
  • How to manually simulate a bank angle/AoA change rather than using a case file
  • How to manually input stability derivatives rather than AVL calculating based on mass file
  • Show the different eigenvalue analysis/dynamic stability analysis tools

Charlie

• Intro to eigenmodes and dynamic stability analysis (in like ~ eng 103 terms if u can lol)
• APPLICATIONS: namely
  • what do i do with all the numbers that are printed from a run case
  • design process of going from mission → geometry → conformation of geometry?
    • ie, geometry is needed for avl to analyze, is the geometry generated as educated guesses and then validated using avl or is there a way to generate geometry based on mission parameters
      • this might be constraint diagram stuff but i havent looked at one of those in a bit
      • also avl wrapper perhaps? esther said it automates stuff for u like geo file writing
      • optimization of geometry would also be nice
  • other applications for avl in aero/preliminary design
    • relations to other softwares like xfoil and openvsp, maybe brief explanation of comparison to avl/best uses for each
• why avl graphics dead is there a way to fix them
• brief explanation of ur avl wrapper
  • what it does, how to use
    • esther can fill in so don’t bother making a super comprehensive documentation but it would be nice to hear from the person that wrote it