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id="documenter-page"><h1 id="CCBlade-Documentation"><a class="docs-heading-anchor" href="#CCBlade-Documentation">CCBlade Documentation</a><a id="CCBlade-Documentation-1"></a><a class="docs-heading-anchor-permalink" href="#CCBlade-Documentation" title="Permalink"></a></h1><p><strong>Summary</strong>: A blade element momentum method for propellers and turbines.</p><p><strong>Author</strong>: Andrew Ning</p><p><strong>Features</strong>:</p><ul><li>Methodology is provably convergent (see <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.1636">http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.1636</a> although multiple improvements have been made since then)</li><li>Prandtl hub/tip losses (or user-defined losses)</li><li>Glauert/Buhl empirical region for high thrust turbines</li><li>Convenience functions for inflow with shear, precone, yaw, tilt, and azimuth</li><li>Can do airfoil corrections beforehand or on the fly (Mach, Reynolds, rotation)</li><li>Allows for flow reversals (negative inflow/rotation velocities)</li><li>Allows for a hover condition (only rotation, no inflow) and rotor locked (no rotation, only inflow)</li><li>Compatible with AD tools like ForwardDiff</li></ul><p><strong>Installation</strong>:</p><pre><code class="language-julia hljs">pkg> add CCBlade</code></pre><p><strong>Documentation</strong>:</p><ul><li>Start with the <a href="tutorial/">quick start tutorial</a> to learn basic usage.</li><li>More advanced or specific queries are addressed in the <a href="howto/">guided examples</a>.</li><li>Full details of the API are listed in <a href="reference/">reference</a>.</li><li>Full details of the theory are linked from the <a href="theory/">theory</a> page.</li><li>A <a href="python/">example</a> calling CCBlade.jl from Python (including derivatives).</li></ul><p><strong>Run Unit Tests</strong>:</p><pre><code class="language-julia hljs">pkg> activate .
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