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OpenVSP Workshop 2016
Registration is still Open
The 2016 OpenVSP Workshop will be held August 23-25 at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field California.
Registration is capped at 100 attendees, so register right away.
There is no charge for the workshop, but attendees have the option to pay $60 upon arrival for lunch and refreshments.
To register, send an email with the following information to Rob McDonald.
- Name
- Email
- Company/Affiliation
- $60 Food Option (Y/N)
- Citizenship / US Resident Status – Foreign national (non permanent resident) registration has closed.
If you cannot attend, don’t worry. The workshop will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing. No registration is required to view the live stream.
Travel
Hotels
We don't have a block of rooms or a particular hotel to recommend. However, there are many choices within just a couple of miles of NASA Ames.
Agenda
The OpenVSP Workshop consists of presentations and tutorials by VSP developers and power users. Topics range from introductory to advanced model building, reports on cutting edge development, and work that real users are accomplishing with OpenVSP.
Breakout Session
| 8/23/16 Tuesday | |||
| 8:30-10:00 | Developer Breakout Session | Rob McDonald | |
Possible topics include (suggestions welcome):
- Overall code architecture and organization
- How to build OpenVSP
- Submitting changes and working with Git
- Automated build and test for OpenVSP
- Fixing your own bug
- Building your own SWIG wrapper for Python or another language
Main Track
| 8/23/16 Tuesday | |||
| 8:00-8:30 | Welcome & Overview | Rob McDonald | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Introduction to OpenVSP | Brandon Litherland | NASA Langley |
| 9:00-9:30 | Basic modeling | Brandon Litherland | NASA Langley |
| 9:30-10:00 | Tour of main components | Brandon Litherland | NASA Langley |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Cal Poly NRA Final Review | Rob McDonald | Cal Poly |
| 11:00-11:30 | |||
| 11:30-12:00 | XSecs in detail | Brandon Litherland | NASA Langley |
| 12:00-12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 12:30-1:00 | |||
| 1:00-1:30 | USAF & NASA SBIR Reports | Ben & Nick | ESAero |
| 1:30-2:00 | Attach, symmetry, sets, subsurfaces | Rob McDonald | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Skinning explained | Rob McDonald | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Advanced Wing Modeling | Rob McDonald | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Conformal Components | J.R. Gloudemans | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Saved Parameter Settings | Bryan Schmidt | ESAero |
| 4:30-5:00 | Modeling Demo | Rob McDonald | |
| 5:00-5:30 | |||
| 5:30-6:00 | |||
| 6:00-6:30 | BBQ social | ||
| 8/24/16 Wednesday | |||
| 8:00-8:30 | FEM from VSP Models | Wu Li | NASA Langley |
| 8:30-9:00 | Structures work | Trevor Laughlin | |
| 9:00-9:30 | TOW Steered Wing Structure Design | Mike Henson | UT Arlington & Lockheed Martin |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mass Properties | Mark McMillin | NASA Langley |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | RapidFEM & PBWeight | Tyler Winter | M4 Engineering |
| 11:00-11:30 | VSPAERO Theory | Dave Kinney | NASA Ames |
| 11:30-12:00 | VSPAERO GUI VLM Basics | Nick Brake | ESAero |
| 12:00-12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 12:30-1:00 | |||
| 1:00-1:30 | VSPAERO GUI VLM Advanced | Nick Brake | ESAero |
| 1:30-2:00 | VSPAERO GUI Panel Method | Nick Brake | ESAero |
| 2:00-2:30 | VSPAERO Verification | Dave Kinney | NASA Ames |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | VSPAERO Next Steps | Dave Kinney | NASA Ames |
| 3:30-4:00 | VSPAERO SUGAR braced wing aero | Doug Wells | NASA Langley |
| 4:00-4:30 | Advanced Parameter Linking | Rob McDonald | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Leveraging DegenGeom for Multi-fidelity Analysis | Erik Olson | NASA Langley |
| 5:00-5:30 | Custom Components | Rob McDonald | |
| 8/25/16 Thursday | |||
| 8:00-8:30 | Wave Drag | Rob/Michael | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Drag buildup | Bryan Schmidt | ESAero |
| 9:00-9:30 | Aerodatabases with GoCart & Cart3D | Aerion Technologies | |
| 9:30-10:00 | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Projected Area | Rob McDonald | |
| 11:00-11:30 | NDARC Integration | Travis Perry | US Army AMRDEC |
| 11:30-12:00 | Aircraft design framework with OpenVSP in the loop | Alessandro Davi | Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica |
| 12:00-12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 12:30-1:00 | |||
| 1:00-1:30 | CompGeom and Meshing | Rob McDonald | |
| 1:30-2:00 | Flightstream | Roy Hartfield | Research in Flight |
| 2:00-2:30 | |||
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Design vars & xddm, API, Scripting | Rob McDonald | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Analysis Mgr, Results Mgr, Python | Rob McDonald | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Fit Model Presentation | Rob McDonald | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Fit Model Interactive | Rob McDonald | |
Past Workshop Presentations
