The program includes a stall model for the airfoil, a model of the MartianĪtmosphere, and the ability to specify a variety of fluids for lift comparisons. The user can control the shape, size, and inclination of the airfoil and theĪtmospheric conditions in which the airfoil is flying. Please any experiences you have with these products.Ĭlick on the icon below for more information about the major programs.įoilSim III computes the theoretical lift and drag of a variety of airfoil shapes. We would like to know if you are using any of these simulators, activities, or Have been developed by teachers during summer workshops and are aligned with science To test the student's knowledge of the material. And for teachers, we have developed almost 200 You can access the Beginner's Guides at theīottom of this page. We have also developed a series of Beginner's Guides thatĪccompany each of the software packages to explain the science and math. Public domain and are constantly being modified and The programs can also be downloaded to your computer so that you can use them without All of the programs are Java applets which run in your browser, on-line, over NASA Glenn Research Center has developed a series of interactive computer programsįor students. which might be a small amount of the Magnus effect.In an effort to foster hands-on, inquiry-based learning in science and math, the There was a couple Dev blogs where they messed with some science experiments and it matched up with the real world pretty well, like the flipping t-handle screwdriver in space, or a spinning wheel in one axis causing rotation of the 90. Infuriatingly I can't find any of the rather impressive physics demonstrations other than the standard crashing, although it does have an amount of aerodynamic simulation, and I know the gear ratios, inertia, and centrifugal forces are all pretty well implemented. The only other thing I could maybe suggest for poops and giggles (since you want gear ratios and inertia) would actually be BeamNG Drive. Most programs and flight sims resort to LUTs for reference. Physical interactions between solid objects (And even some soft bodies) are pretty easy to simulate in real time, but anything involving actual aerodynamic properties to simulate in real time would take an insane amount of resources.

Gear ratios are fairly easy, but the Magnus effect unless drastically simplified won't really work in real time very well. I don't know what would possibly simulate electromagnetism let alone normal magnetism in any realistic way.

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