Math Magik QProp
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1. Math Magik QProp#
This project is developing a Python version of Mark Drela’s qprop [Drea] program originally written in Fortran. Since Python is much more approachable, I decided to work through the program logic, and recreate most of the code using modern Python tools. For reference, the original Fortran code is included here. That code can be compiled using GNU gfortran. I used that code to validate the Python implementation.
I am not recreating the exact input file format of the original code. Instead, the Python application uses a simpler input format, more common in today’s development world.
This project is part of the Math Magik project I started to provide Python tools to model airplane builders, especially those flying indoor rubber-powerd airplanes. I hope this also proves useful to other folks seeking to design better propellers for their applications.