Release Notes — AeroForge v1.0.0

First release of the engineering-level Starship aero & aerothermal prediction toolkit.

Highlights

• Compressible-flow core validated against NACA Report 1135 (isentropic,

normal/oblique shock, Prandtl-Meyer, modified-Newtonian Cp,max) — max relative error 3.5e-5 over 37 reference points.

• U.S. Standard Atmosphere 1976 (0–86 km) within 0.5 % of published T/p.
• Watertight axisymmetric paneling with a closed-surface closure check.
• (Modified) Newtonian aerodynamics over the panel mesh: CA/CN/CL/CD/Cm/L-D

vs Mach and angle of attack.

• Sutton-Graves aerothermal stagnation heating with heat-load integration.
• Full-envelope aero database (subsonic→hypersonic CD0 curve + coefficient

table) as the shared GNC/structures interface.

• Ballistic-entry trajectory mapping through the real atmosphere with

regime/Reynolds/Knudsen classification.

• Post-flight reconciliation with RMSE/MAE/bias/R²/exceedance flags and

comparison figures.

• Common interface across languages: py -m aeroforge, scripts/aeroforge.mjs

(Node), matlab/load_aerodb.m, scripts/aeroforge.sh.

• Zero third-party dependencies (Python standard library only).

Verification

• 59 / 59 checks PASS (verify.py).

Known limitations / seams

See certification-report.md and proof/LIMITATIONS.md. In short: lower-order engineering tool (no Navier-Stokes CFD), perfect-gas/inviscid, synthetic post-flight data, simplified axisymmetric geometry, analytic paneling, MATLAB reader provided but not executed.