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Flow5 released to open source

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by GranPC

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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.

by notpushkin

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Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5

by euroderf

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Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.

by serf

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>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.
music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

by rurban

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We used sail7 for our sailboat, and this was already open-sourced. https://xflr5.tech/sail7/sail7.html

by samuell

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Curious that this hit the front page.
What kind of projects is this software used for?