RCAIDE.Framework.External_Interfaces.OpenVSP.get_vsp_measurements

get_vsp_measurements

get_vsp_measurements(filename='Unnamed_CompGeom.csv', measurement_type='wetted_area')

This calls OpenVSP to compute the wetted areas or volumes of a previously written vehicle.

Assumptions: Vehicle must be open in OpenVSP (via recently used vsp_write) All components have different tags. Repeated tags are added together under the assumption that this represents multiple engines or similar. Values computed from repeated tags in this way may need to be divided by the number of entities later before assignment. This is because some analyses may multiply an assigned area by number of engines, for example.

Source: N/A

Inputs: None

Outputs: measurement [m^2 or m^3] - Dictionary with values for each component,

with component tags as the keys.

Properties Used: N/A