# ELEMENTARY FLOW - UNIFORM FLOW # Written by: JoshTheEngineer # YouTube : www.youtube.com/joshtheengineer # Website : www.joshtheengineer.com # Started: 02/19/19 # Updated: 02/19/19 - Transferred from MATLAB to Python # - Works as expected import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from COMPUTE_CIRCULATION import COMPUTE_CIRCULATION # %% KNOWNS Vinf = 1 # Freestream velocity [arb] alpha = 0 # Angle of attack [deg] # %% CALCULATIONS # Create grid numX = 10 # Number of X points numY = 10 # Number of Y points X = np.linspace(-10,10,numX) # X-point array Y = np.linspace(-10,10,numY) # Y-point array XX, YY = np.meshgrid(X,Y) # Create the meshgrid # Solve for velocities Vx = np.zeros([numX,numY]) # Initialize X velocity component Vy = np.zeros([numX,numY]) # Initialize Y velocity component for i in range(numX): # Loop over X points for j in range(numY): # Loop over Y points Vx[i,j] = Vinf*np.cos(alpha*(np.pi/180)) # Compute X velocity components Vy[i,j] = Vinf*np.sin(alpha*(np.pi/180)) # Compute Y velocity components # %% COMPUTE CIRCULATION a = 5 # Horizontal axis half-length b = 5 # Vertical axis half-length x0 = 0 # Ellipse center X coordinate y0 = 0 # Ellipse center Y coordinate numT = 100 # Number of points along ellipse Gamma, xC, yC, VxC, VyC = COMPUTE_CIRCULATION(a,b,x0,y0,numT,Vx,Vy,X,Y) # Call circulation calculation print("Circulation: ", Gamma) # Display circulation result # %% PLOTTING # Plot quiver fig = plt.figure(1) # Create figure plt.cla() # Get ready for plotting plt.quiver(X,Y,Vx,Vy) # Plot velocity vectors plt.plot(xC,yC,'b-') # Plot ellipse plt.title('Uniform Flow') # Set title plt.xlabel('X-Axis') # Set X-label plt.ylabel('Y-Axis') # Set Y-label plt.gca().set_aspect('equal') # Set axes equal plt.show() # Display plot