Aerospace Eng. Student Struggling with Blended Wing Body Design

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Aerospace engineering students are encountering issues with the Tornado program while attempting to set up geometry for blended wing body aircraft design. The user reports that after entering the chord, the program enters an infinite loop, specifically at line 127 in the main function. The version being used is T135, which was downloaded from the official site, but it appears to be malfunctioning. The discussion highlights the need for troubleshooting advice and potential alternative versions of the Tornado program to resolve these issues.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of blended wing body aircraft design principles
  • Familiarity with the Tornado program for aerodynamic analysis
  • Basic knowledge of MATLAB programming and debugging
  • Awareness of open-source software licensing, specifically GNU-Open license
NEXT STEPS
  • Research troubleshooting techniques for the Tornado program, focusing on infinite loop issues
  • Explore alternative open-source aerodynamic analysis tools for blended wing body designs
  • Learn about parameterized design methodologies in aerospace engineering
  • Investigate community forums for shared code and solutions related to Tornado program usage
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Aerospace engineering students, software developers working on aerodynamic analysis tools, and researchers focused on blended wing body aircraft design will benefit from this discussion.

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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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