Numerical implications of spanwise camber on minimum induced drag configurations

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liersch, Carsten M ^a   Streit, Thomas ^a   Visser, Kenneth D ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; ARC LENGTH; EULER SOLUTIONS; INDUCED DRAG; LIFTING LINE; NONPLANAR CONFIGURATION; PLANAR CONFIGURATIONS; PLANAR WINGS; PLANFORM; THEORETICAL MINIMUM; WETTED AREA; WING GEOMETRY;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ASPECT RATIO; DRAG REDUCTION; PLANFORMS;

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS;

EID: 78549243037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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