Aerodynamics Python Packages

aerosandbox

Aircraft design optimization made fast through computational graph transformations (e.g., automatic differentiation). Composable analysis tools for aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, trajectory design, and much more.

neuralfoil

NeuralFoil is a practical airfoil aerodynamics analysis tool using physics-informed machine learning, exposed to end-users in pure Python/NumPy.

rocketpy

Next generation High-Power Rocketry 6-DOF Trajectory Simulation

optvl

AVL + python + optimization = OptVL

openballistics

High-performance, lightweight, header-only C++ library with native Python bindings for projectile trajectory prediction and firing-solution solving

openaerostruct

OpenAeroStruct is a lightweight tool that performs aerostructural optimization using OpenMDAO.

flow5ctl

AI-driven aircraft design with flow5. MCP server + CLI for low-Reynolds-number aircraft — human-powered aircraft, RC gliders, small UAVs.

pterasoftware

Ptera Software is a fast, easy-to-use, and open-source software package for analyzing flapping-wing flight.

pyavl-wrapper

python wrapper of AVL's fortran layer made using f2py

fluxrender

A high-performance physics engine for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), real-time smoke advection, and massive particle simulations in Python.

flashslice

Fused Triton kernels for Transolver's slice/deslice. Official code for "Does Transolver really need a Transformer?" (arXiv:2609.32525)

pymead

An object-oriented Python 3 GUI and API for single- and multi-element parametric airfoil design, analysis, and optimization

mapleaf

6-DOF Rocket Flight Simulation Framework

pyloworder

High performance parallel reduced order Modelling library

vlm

Vortex Lattice Method library written in Python

trust-bo

CPU-first high-dimensional Bayesian optimization in Rust/Python for CFD and engineering design.

rocket-tools

80 validated aerospace-engineering tools for Python, the CLI, and MCP agents: structures, aerodynamics, compressible flow, propulsion, orbital mechanics, ascent and recovery, optimization, and reliability. Every result is traceable to a published reference.

wingwalker

Airfoil and wing design utilities

helipypter

Python notebooks related to helicopter aerodynamics.

prandtl-cfd

CFD surrogate modeling toolkit — train fast surrogates for aerodynamic predictions

pyairpar

An object-oriented Python 3 GUI and API for single- and multi-element parametric airfoil design, analysis, and optimization

xflrpy

xflrpy is a python enabled version of xflr5 for scripting and design optimization.

preflightpy

Python module for Simulation and Optimization of Rocket Trajectories, SORT for short.

ezaero

ezaero - Easy aerodynamics in Python :airplane: