BladeDesigner Documentation

The BladeDesigner application is a CAD/CAE tool providing classes for turbomachine blade design. So far it is optimized to be useful in the aerodynamic design process. It comes with a GUI but is most powerful with user defined python scripts.

Note

Only version 2 is in active development.

Quick Start

Two quick start options are available:

Download the latest snapshot.

• Version 1
• Version 2

Or clone the repository:

• git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/bladedesigner/version1 bladedesigner-version1
• git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/bladedesigner/version2 bladedesigner-version2

Support

Having trouble? We’d like to help! Open a ticked or subscribe to your mailing list and write us a mail.

Authors

Activ contributors

• Andreas Kührmann (Version 1 & 2)
• Oliver Borm (Version 1)
• Sebastian Schmidt (Version 2)

Past contributors

• Balint Balassa (Version 1)
• Bernd Budich (Version 1)
• Fabian Schäffer (Version 2)
• Georgi Kasev (Version 1)
• Julius Fellerhoff (Version 1)
• Sebastian Barthmes (Version 1)
• Steve Walter (Version 1)

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

Table Of Contents

• BladeDesigner Version 1
  • Feature list
  • Screenshots
  • Prerequirements
  • Accessing the source code via Git on Linux or OS X machines
  • Running
  • Developers’ Guide
• BladeDesigner Version 2
  • Prerequirements
  • Accessing the source code via Git on Linux or OS X machines
  • Compiling the documentation with Sphinx
  • Users’ Guide
  • Developers’ Guide
  • API

Indices And Tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page