PROFOIL

PROFOIL is a computer program for the inverse design of isolated airfoils.

Compiling PROFOIL and Testing

The script profoil-gfortran.sh in the source directory ./src can be run to compile the code and run a series of test cases. The results are output to the ./src/test/results-gfortran folder that can be compared with the output files in this repository. The script can be run using:

source profoil-gfortran.sh

User Guide

The user guide for PROFOIL is here ./docs/PROFOIL-User-Guide-2022.pdf.

PROFOIL-UI

Complete the installation of the User Interface (UI) by following the install instructions for PROFOIL-UI.

License

PROFOIL is released under the MIT License. Three subroutines (draw, qip, and thicke) were adapted from NASA TM-80210. PROFOIL uses some subroutines from LINPACK for matrix solving.