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Context from the homepage (https://flow5.tech):

An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers

flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.

>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

Curious that this hit the front page.

What kind of projects is this software used for?

Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.