Whole-aircraft RANS, 486k cells, 36 m/s. Traces are released ahead of the canard at its own height and
coloured by the induced vertical velocity — the aircraft's own disturbance, with the freestream's
vertical component removed — so undisturbed air reads neutral at every angle and only the wake shows. The
boundary sits exactly at the canard tip — inboard of it the wing flies in disturbed air, outboard it
doesn't. That interaction is what a component build-up (and X-Plane's per-surface model) cannot see.
The streak paths are the computed flow. The
shimmer is stylistic — a steady solve carries no turbulence to animate — so its amplitude is tied to
the local vertical velocity, meaning disturbed air visibly jitters more than clean air.
| Lift coefficient CL | – |
| Drag coefficient CD | – |
| Pitching moment Cm | – |
| Lift-to-drag | – |