Supercritical Airfoil Design for Future High-Altitude Long-Endurance Concepts

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 156-164

  Biber, Kasim ^a,c   Tilmann, Carl P ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Ser Engineering Co   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DRAG; DURABILITY; LAMINAR FLOW; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SPEED;

ANGLE OF ATTACK; SUPERCRITICAL AIRFOIL DESIGN; SUPERCRITICAL SPEEDS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 1542711725     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.1049     Document Type: Article

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