Rotare - Documentation

This repository contains the complete documentation related to Rotare, a feature-rich and open-source implementation of the Blade Element Momentum Theory in MATLAB.

Documentation

The documentation is separated in two distinct parts.

User manual

The user manual focuses on the practical aspects of the software. It details the requirements, the install process, the setup of the configuration file and the analysis of the results. It also contains a small troubleshooting guide to help user resolve the most common issues.

Technical documentation

The technical documentation is a complete description of the code architecture and the methodology implemented. It also contains a very detailed mathematical description of the solvers implemented and of the models used to extend and correct the base methodology. This technical part also comes with the presentation of many validation cases.

Other

An abstract was submitted for the presentation of Rotare during the AIAA SciTech 2023 forum at National Harbor, MD (USA). It is currently in review by the conference committee.

License

The present documentation is provided under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Please refer to the Notice for the licensing information of the different packages present in this repository.

The Rotare Software is provided under the Apache-2.0 license.