software_architecture.md

Software architecture {#softwarearchitecture}

The software architecture is structured into various modules and packages, each handling specific tasks. Below is a description of the main components

• strategies:

  • Strategies define the procedure of calculating the polars by initializing the aircraft geometry, calling methods and copying and processing data.
  • There are different strategies implemented, stored in the folders corresponding to the aircraft configuration (e.g., taw, bwb).
  • Each Strategy has a corresponding data.cpp for reading and writing data into the aircraft.xml and a config.cppfile for reading from the config.xml.

• methods:

  • Methods are either derived from literature or rely on external calculation sofwares, data bases or surrogate models.
  • Methods are structured in a general way, so that they can be accessed by all strategies ranging over different aircraft configurations.
  • Methods are stored in the methods folder and need to be initialized, by geometry input, flight conditions and input parameters from the config file.