On 25 Dec 2003 14:00:00 -0800, (Marc A.
Lefebvre US-775) wrote:

:Nat Puffer wouldnt be able to help as it is NOT with HIS design, as I
:said a canard design "LIKE" the COZY. I suppose if I had said "like"
:a Long-EZ you would have recomended Burt as well? hehehehe... Try
:again...
:
:Looking for modelling software, not people... Looking to do some
:analysis of some designs. Something along the lines of a virtual wind
:tunnel testing, stress and load testing, etc... There has to be
:someone with a clue in this group somewhere. (Hoping, atleast)
:
There's isn't any consumer level modeling software that can do an
adequate job on a canard configuration. You need a vortex lattice
package, there are a lot of interactions between the canard and main
wing that are subtle and complex. There are a number of packages
around, most are written in Fortran, you need to get the source code
and compile for whatever your configuration is. Do a search on VLMD,
it's been used for canards and tandem wings.