Welcome to VortexAD

VortexAD is a general purpose potential flow solver library for aerodynamic analysis. VortexAD solvers are built using CSDL, a graph-based modeling framework developed at the LSDO Lab.

Solver toolbox:

VortexAD holds various potential flow methods in different modes, summarized in the table below; many of these are still a work in progress.

	Fixed wake	Prescribed wake	Free wake
VLM	WIP	No	No
PM	Yes	WIP	WIP

Cite us

@inbook{Scotzniovsky_panel_method_2025,
        author = {Luca Scotzniovsky and John T. Hwang},
        title = {A Fast, Memory-Efficient Panel Method for Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Under Uncertainty Using Graph-Based Modeling},
        booktitle = {AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025},
        pages={3021},
        year={2025}
        chapter = {},
        pages = {},
        doi = {10.2514/6.2025-3021},
        URL = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-3021},
        eprint = {https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2025-3021}
}

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