Does anyone have experience using openprop? I have some questions.
1) What exactly does the ship speed parameter do in the GUI? There are no other parameters, like ship size or weight or drag coefficient or anything. Just speed, so how does only having the speed parameter provide any useful input?
2) The paper on openprop mentions being able to build a NURB model from the openprop's output files. It seems to me they manually constructed the model in a CAD program, using the propeller numbers as a guide. Is there a way to automate this somehow? There is actually a 3d rendering of the prop in the matlab GUI, so clearly the model data is there somewhere. I suppose I could try to hack into the matlab code, but maybe there's an established way that I'm not seeing.
1) What exactly does the ship speed parameter do in the GUI? There are no other parameters, like ship size or weight or drag coefficient or anything. Just speed, so how does only having the speed parameter provide any useful input?
2) The paper on openprop mentions being able to build a NURB model from the openprop's output files. It seems to me they manually constructed the model in a CAD program, using the propeller numbers as a guide. Is there a way to automate this somehow? There is actually a 3d rendering of the prop in the matlab GUI, so clearly the model data is there somewhere. I suppose I could try to hack into the matlab code, but maybe there's an established way that I'm not seeing.