preFoil

Introduction

preFoil is a pySpline-based utility module that allows to flexibly handle airfoil geometries and enable rapid, custom surface mesh generation.

The user can:

• Initialize the airfoil from a given input file (e.g. from AirfoilTools) and obtain a smoothly-interpolated shape with an arbitrary number of points

• Modify some of the airfoil characteristics, such as the trailing edge type

• Compute some geometric parameters (e.g. thickness, camber)

• Sample the point distribution along the airfoil with a range of built-in specific distributions

• Output the files into different formats, for visualization purposes or further meshing with pyHyp

• Generate FFD boxes to preform airfoil optimizations

• Installation
• preFoil API
• Examples