news

21 September 2011
sumo updated to version 2.1.3 (bugfix release)

9 June 2011
sumo updated to version 2.1.1 with improved IGES overlay support.

1 April 2011
sumo/scope for windows updated to solve library compatibility problem.

17 March 2011
sumo updated to 2.0.1, scope 1.7.1 on the download page.

27 October 2010
sumo updated to 1.9.17, scope 1.6.10 on the download page.

17 May 2010
sumo updated to 1.9.14, scope 1.6.6 on the download page.

29 March 2010
Compatibility update for the Windows version now on the download page.

4 March 2010
Bugfix release (r2323) of sumo (1.9.13) and scope on the download page.

18 February 2010
Update (r2299) of sumo (1.9.12) and scope on the download page.

1 December 2009
Update (r2132) of sumo (1.9.9) and scope on the download page.

10 November 2009
Bugfix release (r2036) of sumo and scope on the download page.

6 November 2009
Evaluation version of dwfs now available for download.

6 November 2009
New versions: sumo 1.9.8, scope 1.5.6

about

Larosterna is a small software development business started in June 2009 by a researcher of the Flight Dynamics Lab at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. With eight years of experience in implementing high-performance, multithreaded algorithms in C++, Larosterna offers implementation services to solve computationally demanding problems.

open source software

To support research in the 2006-2008 NFFP project DirSim, a surface modeling tool and mesh generator (sumo) and a visualization program (scope) were developed. In 2008, the EU project SimSAC sponsored further improvement of sumo. Both programs are open source software distributed under the terms of the GPL, v2.

modeling and mesh generation

sumo: aircraft surface modeler The surface modeler sumo is a graphical tool aimed at rapid creation of aircraft geometries and automatic surface mesh generation. Sumo is not a CAD system, but rather a easy-to-use sketchpad, highly specialized towards aircraft configurations. Read more...

visualization for aeroelasticity

scope: visualization for aeroelasticity Scope is a visualization program to display results generated by the potential flow solver dwfs, such as surface data, flutter modeshapes and flight trajectories. Furthermore, it can read NASTRAN bulk data files as well as modal analysis results and animate eigenmode shapes. Read more...