Aerospace Eng. Student Struggling with Blended Wing Body Design

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An aerospace engineering student is facing issues with the Tornado program while attempting to design a blended wing body aircraft. The program fails to set up geometry correctly, entering a loop after chord input, and the student seeks assistance or an alternative version of the software. Tornado is an open-source program, and sharing it under the GNU-Open license is permissible. The discussion highlights the importance of community support in resolving technical challenges in aerospace design. Assistance in troubleshooting or sharing code is encouraged to help the student progress in their project.
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Hello everyone! I'm a aerospace engineering student. I'm working in my own program for blended wing body aircraft parameterized design.

I'm triyed to use Tornado program but it doesn't even allow me to setup the geometry, after introducing the chord the program goes in a bucle and when I stop it (ctrl+c) it shows:

" In main (line 127)
[geo]=inpt18(geo); %New input function called. TM20070329 "

Does anyone have the same problem, and know the solution.
 
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b90sz said:
Hello everyone! I'm a aerospace engineering student. I'm working in my own program for blended wing body aircraft parameterized design.

I want to use the code of the program Tornado, to obtain the aerodynamic coefficient and derivates,but the version of the program I've gotten from the oficial site doesn't work well (at least for me). When I'm trying to setup the geometry after introducing the chord the program goes in a bucle.

I was wondering if any of you could send me a version of the program. Doesn't matter if aparently is the same as in the page (T135), hopefully it will work and you will save my butt.

Also if you have any advice or code available I would really appreciate it.

Thank you for your time.

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Welcome to the PF.

What do you mean by "send you the program"? Is this something that should be paid for?
 
Not at all, the Tornado program is an opensource program (code) distributed according to the GNU-Open license protocol.

I'm not familiar witht the specific rules of this site, but my request is not at all against the law.
 
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