Using Perl to create web-based software tools for wind tunnel testing
Stephen B. Jenkins · 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit · 2001
Over the past four years, significant effort has been expended to create and implement several web-based software tools for the 2m x 3m Low-Speed Wind Tunnel at the Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada. These tools have been implemented through the use of three large open-source projects: the Perl programming language, the Apache web server, and the Linux operating system. Five individual software systems have been created: plotting; configuration file editing; data file viewing; event logging; and a dynamic data display. This paper briefly describes the reasoning behind the decisions to use Perl and the World Wide Web, as well as the function of each of the five tools and shows examples of the web pages used to interact with them.