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BLASTER

BLASTER - Boundary Layer Adjoint Solver for Transonic External high Reynolds number flows - is free and open source software written in C++ and Python to perform Viscous-Inviscid calculations of airfoil and wings. The software is developed by Paul Dechamps at the University of Liège since 2022 under the supervision of Gregorios Dimitriadis and Vincent Terrapon and with the help of Adrien Crovato and Amaury Bilocq.

BLASTER contains a C++ boundary layer solver and the necessary interfaces to perform Viscous-Inviscid calculations. The code was developed to be used with any existing inviscid solver with minor modifications of the latter in the most flexible way as possible. The current implementation was tested with the following inviscid solvers

  • DARTFlo, a full-potential solver - see here
  • SU2, the Euler solver - see here
  • HSPM and UPM, linear panel methods - see here

An adjoint method was developed to compute the flow gradients of the coupled problem of BLASTER and DART.