Design and fabrication of a hybrid surface-pressure airfoil model based on rapid prototyping

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-66

  Zhou, Zhihua ^a   Li, Dichen ^a   Zhang, Zhengyu ^b   Zeng, Junhua ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AERODYNAMICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Electrodeposition; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING; WIND TUNNELS;

HYBRID SURFACE PRESSURE AIRFOIL MODELS; INTERNAL PASSAGES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 38349154886     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540810841571     Document Type: Article

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