MIT Aerospace Computational Design Lab Projects & Research

ACDL Projects & Research

Summary of ACDL developed or supported software

A number of software packages developed by ACDL members are available. Here is the current list:

MSES

MSES is a numerical airfoil development system. It includes capabilities to analyze, modify and optimize single and multi element airfoils for a wide range of Mach and Reynolds numbers. Format of this document is dvi. Click here for postscript format.
pV3: pv3 is a three dimensional, distributed, unsteady, unstructured, CFD visualization software system for supercomputers, parallel machines and clusters of workstations.
Visual2: Visual2 is a two dimensional, unsteady, CFD visualization software system for many workstations. This package is no longer under development.
Visual3: Visual3 is a three dimensional, unsteady, CFD visualization software system for many workstations with 3D graphics hardware. There is support for both structured and unstructured gridding.
XFOIL: An interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils.
XROTOR: XROTOR is an interactive program for the design and analysis of ducted and free-tip propellers and windmills. Format of this document is dvi. Click here for postscript format.

Visualization Codes

At MIT, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, there has been a long term effort in the research and generation of graphics and scientific visualization software. Like their predecessor GRAFIC, Visual2, Visual3 and pV3 are software packages aimed at aiding in the analysis of a particular suite of problems. They were designed for Computational Fluid Dynamics but are more general. Each deals with a programmer defined suite of scalar and vector fields.

The following products are available:

Visual2 is a two dimensional, unsteady, CFD visualization software system for many workstations. This package is no longer under development.
Visual3 is a three dimensional, unsteady, CFD visualization software system for many workstations with 3D graphics hardware. There is support for both structured and unstructured gridding.
pV3 is a three dimensional, distributed, unsteady, unstructured, CFD visualization software system for supercomputers, parallel machines and clusters of workstations.

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