12 hours ago
Context from the homepage (https://flow5.tech):
An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers
flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.
9 hours ago
With so many things being called Flow these days, this one is probably the most fitting.
6 hours ago
Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.
9 hours ago
Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5
8 hours ago
>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.
music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.
3 hours ago
Certain types of (numerical) problems are very parallel in nature. LLMs, for example. But obviously not every problem is. And sometimes a parallel solution isn't the most efficient.
7 hours ago
Curious that this hit the front page.
What kind of projects is this software used for?
3 hours ago
> Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.
From the main project page. So it’s for designing aircraft, mostly.