Exploiting patterns in the Kulfan transformations of supercritical airfoils

9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sóbester, András ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Computational Engineering and Design Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; NASA; NOISE POLLUTION;

DESIGN SPACES; DESIGN VARIABLES; GENERAL METHOD; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MATHEMATICAL FORMS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SUPERCRITICAL AIRFOILS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 78249288796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-6951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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