Drag characteristics for optimally span-loaded planar, wingletted, and C-wings

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Slingerland, Ronald ^a   Verstraeten, Joram G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BENDING MOMENTS; DRAG REDUCTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIFT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; INDUCED DRAG; LIFT COEFFICIENT; PLANAR WINGS; ROOT BENDING MOMENT; TOTAL DRAGS; TREFFTZ PLANE;

WINGS;

EID: 51349147996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-161     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. Blackwell Jr., J.A., Numerical Method to Calculate the Induced Drag or Optimum Loading for Arbitrary Non-Planar Aircraft, NASA SP-405, May 1976.
3. Kroo, I.M., Design and Analysis of Optimally-Loaded Lifting Systems, AIAA-84-2507, October 1984.
4. Anderson Jr., J.D., Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.