Effect of airfoil characteristics on aircraft performance

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 427-433

  Gopalarathnam, Ashok ^a   McAvoy, Christopher W ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; LIFT;

AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE; AIRFOIL DESIGN; LIFT COEFFICIENT;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0036576080     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2968     Document Type: Article

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