Low-speed natural-laminar-flow airfoils: Case study in inverse airfoil design

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-63

  Gopalarathnam, Ashok ^a,b   Selig, Michael S ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; LAMINAR FLOW; LIFT; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTIPOINT INVERSE AIRFOIL DESIGN; NATURAL-LAMINAR-FLOW (NLF) AIRFOILS TECHNIQUES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0035081040     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2734     Document Type: Article

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