Surface output for forces in lift and drag directions #358
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Purpose
This PR adds force coefficients per unit area projected in the lift and drag directions as surface output variables. Here is an example of the force in the drag direction for the MACH tutorial wing case:
![force_in_drag_dir](https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/48863473/335687950-58bc0b56-d981-4ece-9656-5c77a3a121dd.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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.NdA_nrBlaFgDnyAEAmhtSGASZahlx21vAoZ1vv67nvE)
It would be great if the reviewers could test this on their own cases.
Expected time until merged
2-3 weeks
Type of change
Testing
No tests, but I tried this on wing and full aircraft cases and the outputs made sense.
Checklist
flake8
andblack
to make sure the Python code adheres to PEP-8 and is consistently formattedfprettify
or C/C++ code withclang-format
as applicable