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🧪 Engineering Aerospace Engineering Simulation

Design an aircraft wing planform in 3D: adjust span, chord, taper and sweep and watch lift distribution, wingtip vortices, induced drag and lift-to-drag ratio respond in real time using Prandtl lifting-line theory.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted💨 Air & Wind

Every aircraft wing is a trade-off between span, chord, taper and sweep, and the physics that governs that trade-off is Prandtl's lifting-line theory. This simulator lets you build a wing planform from scratch — set the wingspan, root chord, taper ratio and sweep angle — and see the consequences immediately in 3D: the spanwise lift distribution rendered as a row of lift vectors, the trailing wingtip vortices that carry away induced drag, and live readouts of aspect ratio, Oswald efficiency, lift and induced-drag coefficients and the resulting lift-to-drag ratio. Four presets (glider, airliner, fighter, near-elliptical) show how radically different real aircraft solve the same equations.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation introduces fundamental concepts in aerospace engineering, focusing on principles like lift and drag. Users can experiment with aircraft designs to understand their aerodynamic properties.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install