Support

Any questions regarding the code, please contact the code developer, Tomas Melin at:

tomas.melin@liu.se

Corporate Support

There is a corporate support service available for commpanies using Tornado in their buisiness. Contents of the support contract is subject to negotiation and may contain:

• Telephone support
• Interface and module development
• Software documentation
• Geometry definition and development
• Aircraft analysis
• Plus much more
  

Online Courses

Redhammer consulting is proud to present the first version of the online course program. Students can in the comfort of their of home or office, participate in a teacher guided workshop to hone their Tornado operating skills.

The course material consists of:

• Geometry construction, including:
• Ripping data from paper 3-view.
• Partition and panel layout.
• Best practice simplifications.
• Center of gravity and reference point positioning.
• Reference data locking.
• Editing existing geometries.
• Adding new wingprofiles.
• Selecting lattice model

• Setting up computations
• Lattice convergence studies.
• Auto trim.
• Drag polars.
• Trimmed polars.
• Parameter sweep
• Zero lift drag estimation.
• Trefftz plane analysis.
• Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction

• Post processing
• Interpreting Tornado output.
• Porting data to other Matlab applications.
• Batch processing.

The course lasts about 2 hours and is done over Skype or another internet collaboration tool.
At the end of the course, the student may on request sit a short exam and receive a nice diploma.

Cost? 100£ per student, discounts available.

If you are interested in participating in a short online course, please contact: Dr Tomas Melin at tomas.melin@liu.se for further information.