NEWPAN is an advanced 3D panel method for the computation of external aerodynamic and hydrodynamic problems in the aerospace, automotive, and marine industries.
It is used by championship winning Formula One teams and leading IndyCar motor racing teams. It is also employed by the Americas Cup yacht racing teams for hull and keel design in conjunction with its sister code PANSAIL.
NEWPAN is also in use in the wider aerospace industry, especially for complex high lift configurations and wind tunnel wall modelling, where wall constraint corrections can be computed and applied to experimental results.
NEWPAN features a design capability, enabling for instance a wing to be designed to give a prescribed lift distribution, and returning the shape necessary to achieve it.
NEWPAN and the associated suite of graphical pre- and post-processors is available now on a range of UNIX workstations. Whilst sharing a common solver, different versions of NEWPAN are available to support the aerospace, automotive, and marine sectors. For example, a specific version of NEWPAN is available for racecar applications