Back to Joe's Java Index.
Back to Joe's Java Index.
This is a Java program that calculates commonly used parameters related to airplane wing geometry such as area, taper ratio, aspect ratio, sweep, etc. As an aerospace engineer involved in airplane design, I find that I'm calculating these parameters all the time, so I wrote this program to help me out. To use this program, simply enter any parameters that you know, and the others will be calculated automatically. For instance, if you know the wing span and aspect ratio, enter them, and the wing area will be calculated automatically. Or, if you know the wing span, root chord length, and tip chord length, you can enter them and the wing area, aspect ratio and taper ratio will be automatically calculated.
My Wing Geometry Java program is available in 3 forms. As a downloadable application set up for MacOS X, as an application set up for Windows or as an application set up for use on UNIX based systems. This program and it's source code is covered by the General Public Licence.
|
MacOS Application 1.2 MB) Version 1.3.0 |
Application that will run under MacOS X. You will download a compressed disk image. Should work with MacOS X right out of the box. This file also includes the full source code to the Wing Geometry program. |
|
Windows Application (1.8 MB) Version 1.3.0 |
Application that will run under Windows XP/2000/NT/etc. You should use the latest version of Java 2. The installer is inside a zip archive file. |
|
UNIX Application (1.9 MB) Version 1.3.0 |
Application that will run on several different UNIX systems with Java 1.2 or later installed. |
|
Source Code (668 kB) |
Full source code for the Wing Geometry program. Includes JAR files for required libraries: MRJAdapter and Browser Opener. |
Change history.
Need help?