User Guide

A plain-language guide to every page, control, and result in ThrustLab. New here? Start with Getting started.

• Getting started — What ThrustLab does, how a simulation works, and how to read your first result.
• Projects — Organize powertrain configurations and compare runs side by side.
• New simulation — Every control on the simulation builder — rotors, motors, propellers, battery, ESC, and flight conditions — explained field by field.
• Results — Reading single-point, sweep, and dynamic (time-domain) results, including every metric and chart.
• Warnings explained — What each warning and convergence flag means, and what to do about it.
• How ThrustLab models oblique inflow — What the engine does when a rotor is climbing, descending, cruising forward, or mounted with tilt — and how thrust is reported in both frames.
• Glossary — Plain-language definitions of every term and acronym used across the app.