FluidProperties
- class baseclasses.FluidProperties(**kwargs)[source]
This class is the parent of pyAero_problem and defines the basic flow properties to be passed to the solver. It also has a method to update the dynamic viscosity through the Sutherland’s law based on flow temperature and other optional user inputs.
- Parameters:
- gammafloat (default = 1.4)
Set the ratio of the specific heats.
- Prfloat (default = 0.72)
Set the Prandtl number.
- Rfloat (default = 287.055 J / kg / K)
The specific gas constant. By default we use air.
- SSuthDimfloat (default = 110.55)
The Sutherland temperature for Sutherland’s Law.
- muSuthDimfloat (default = 1.716e-5)
The viscosity at the reference temperature for Sutherland’s Law. If you want to directly specify a viscosity for your fluid (e.g., running a case in water), a hack to achieve this is to set muSuthDim to the desired viscosity and T to TSuthDim. By doing so, mu will be equal to muSuthDim.
- TSuthDimfloat (default = 273.15)
The reference temperature for Sutherland’s Law.