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SUAVE is a conceptual level aircraft design environment built with the ability to analyze and optimize both conventional and unconventional designs. This capability is achieved in part by allowing analysis information for aircraft to be drawn from multiple sources. Many other software tools for aircraft conceptual design rely on fixed empirical ...
Tutorials. These are tutorials for SUAVE. The tutorials will then help you get started with SUAVE. We recommend starting with the Boeing 737-800 tutorial and then moving to the Regional Jet Optimization or the Turbofan Network tutorial. These will allow you to explore the capabilities of SUAVE. If you haven't already downloaded the latest ...
SUAVE 2.5.0. The Latest in Aerospace Design. This release has numerous changes. Unfortunately, some interfaces have been altered to support all these changes. We tried to make these interface alterations as user friendly and intuitive as possible. The next major release will be a 3.0 with significant changes.
Open a command prompt, in a directory that you want to start the repository (for example in the SUAVE_Project folder), and run the git clone command. git clone <git url>. Now you should have the source code. Change directory into the trunk folder and run a developer installation command. python3 setup.py develop.
Download and extract the release archive. Open the directory SUAVE/trunk. Open a command prompt in that directory. Run this command: python3 setup.py install. If you are on a linux or mac, you may need to run. sudo python3 setup.py install. Change to any other folder, open a python shell, and test the new module with the command import SUAVE.
Documentation. SUAVE is fully documented through doxygen. However, some starter high level documentation is available on the left. We suggestion you read the high level information before jumping into the Doxygen based documentation. Download.
Frequently Asked Questions. Alright, you dove in and now you’re stuck. You’ve come to a good starting point. If this FAQ fails you then we suggest you go through tutorials, maybe our paper, send us a question in the forum, or if all else fails start reading code. Don’t worry the code is more readable than most engineering textbooks.
Basic eVTOL Analysis. This video shows one way to setup an eVTOL aircraft for basic analysis. This configuration was chosen to be dissimilar to existing eVTOL models, yet be able to highlight how to use SUAVE. Basic eVTOL Analysis. Watch on.
Blended Wing Body with CFD - SUAVE Tutorial. Blended Wing Body using CFD. The purpose of this tutorial is to show the analysis settings used to generate geometry, a mesh, and run CFD via SU2 from SUAVE. It will also show how to add individual wing segments. We assume you are familiar with SUAVE and have some CFD experience already.
def SUAVE.Methods.Missions.Segments.Ground.Common.compute_ground_forces. (. segment. ) Compute the rolling friction on the aircraft. Assumptions: Does a force balance to calculate the load on the wheels using only lift. Uses only a single friction coefficient. Source:
