Laminar airfoil modification attaining optimum drag reduction by use of airfoil morphing

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1126-1132

  Suzuki, Hiroharu ^a,b   Rinoie, Kenichi ^a,b   Tezuka, Asei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Institute of Engineering Innovation   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; DEFORMATION; DRAG; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW;

AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; AIRFOIL CHORD; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; OFF DESIGNS; STRUCTURAL RESTRICTIONS; TRANSITION POINT; VISCOUS-INVISCID INTERACTION; WING BOX;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 77955541907     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.46152     Document Type: Article

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