CCBlade.jl
A blade element momentum method for propellers and turbines.
https://github.com/byuflowlab/CCBlade.jl
Category: Renewable Energy
Sub Category: Wind Energy
Keywords
aerodynamics aircraft bem bemt propeller rotor rotorcraft wind-turbine
Keywords from Contributors
aircraft-design aircraft-performance flapping-flight flight-vehicle-aerodynamics low-speed-aerodynamics potential-flow steady-state unsteady-flows vortex-lattice wind-turbines
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Blade Element Momentum Method for Propellers and Turbines
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/byuflowlab/CCBlade.jl
- Owner: byuflowlab
- License: other
- Created: 2016-05-18T19:33:38.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-11-24T02:30:08.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-03T18:52:38.876Z (7 days ago)
- Topics: aerodynamics, aircraft, bem, bemt, propeller, rotor, rotorcraft, wind-turbine
- Language: Julia
- Homepage:
- Size: 9.85 MB
- Stars: 75
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 36
- Open Issues: 4
- Releases: 11
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGES.md
- License: LICENSE.md
README.md
CCBlade.jl
Summary: A blade element momentum method for propellers and turbines.
Author: Andrew Ning
Features:
- Methodology is provably convergent (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.1636 although multiple improvements have been made since then)
- Prandtl hub/tip losses (or user-defined losses)
- Glauert/Buhl empirical region for high thrust turbines
- Convenience functions for inflow with shear, precone, yaw, tilt, and azimuth
- Can do airfoil corrections beforehand or on the fly (Mach, Reynolds, rotation)
- Allows for flow reversals (negative inflow/rotation velocities)
- Allows for a hover condition (only rotation, no inflow) and rotor locked (no rotation, only inflow)
- Compatible with AD tools like ForwardDiff
- Callable from Python, with derivatives included (optionally)
Installation:
] add CCBlade
Documentation:
The documentation contains
- A quick start tutorial to learn basic usage,
- Guided examples to address specific or more advanced tasks,
- A reference describing the API,
- Theory in full detail.
- An example calling CCBlade.jl from Python, optionally with derivatives.
Run Unit Tests:
pkg> activate .
pkg> test
Citing:
Ning, A., “Using Blade Element Momentum Methods with Gradient-Based Design Optimization,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 994–1014, May 2021. doi:10.1007/s00158-021-02883-6
Owner metadata
- Name: BYU FLOW Lab
- Login: byuflowlab
- Email:
- Kind: organization
- Description: FLight, Optimization, and Wind
- Website: http://flow.byu.edu
- Location: Provo, UT
- Twitter:
- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10734941?v=4
- Repositories: 94
- Last ynced at: 2024-04-01T07:46:20.177Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/byuflowlab
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- Push event: 21
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Total Commits: 273
Total Committers: 11
Avg Commits per committer: 24.818
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.414
Commits in past year: 32
Committers in past year: 3
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 10.667
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Total issues: 22
Total pull requests: 27
Average time to close issues: 5 months
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Average comments per pull request: 1.26
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- Total packages: 3
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Total downloads:
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- Total dependent packages: 1 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 0 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 36
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juliahub.com: CCBlade
Blade Element Momentum Method for Propellers and Turbines
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://docs.juliahub.com/General/CCBlade/stable/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.0.0 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-24T13:51:36.165Z (18 days ago)
- Versions: 12
- Dependent Packages: 1
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- Downloads: 39 Total
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