An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is a streamlined body that is capable of generating significantly more lift than drag. Wings...
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of airfoils, which are the cross-sectional shapes of wings and other aerodynamic surfaces. The NACA airfoil series is a set of standardized airfoil shapes...
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(supercritical airfoil in American English) is an airfoil designed primarily to delay the onset of wave drag in the transonic speed range. Supercritical airfoils are...
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(upward) force on the airfoil, which is lift. As the airflow approaches the airfoil it is curving upward, but as it passes the airfoil it changes direction...
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A supersonic airfoil is a cross-section geometry designed to generate lift efficiently at supersonic speeds. The need for such a design arises when an...
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M234 launcher (redirect from Ring airfoil projectile)
M734 64 mm Kinetic Riot Control or the M742 64 mm CSI Riot Control Ring Airfoil Projectiles. The latter produces a 4 to 5 foot tear gas cloud on impact...
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Joukowsky transform (redirect from Joukowsky airfoil)
two-dimensional potential flow around a class of airfoils known as Joukowsky airfoils. A Joukowsky airfoil is generated in the complex plane ( z {\displaystyle...
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Clark Y is the name of a particular airfoil profile, widely used in general purpose aircraft designs, and much studied in aerodynamics over the years...
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The Kline–Fogleman airfoil or KF airfoil is a simple airfoil design with single or multiple steps along the length of the wing. It was originally devised...
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degrees in this case, but it varies from airfoil to airfoil. In particular, for aerodynamically thick airfoils (thickness to chord ratios of around 10%)...
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aerodynamics, the pitching moment on an airfoil is the moment (or torque) produced by the aerodynamic force on the airfoil if that aerodynamic force is considered...
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engineering, camber is the asymmetry between the two acting surfaces of an airfoil, with the top surface of a wing (or correspondingly the front surface of...
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the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the...
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an airfoil in the spanwise direction), the first axis generating the surface is always in the spanwise direction. In aerodynamics and thin airfoil theory...
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unsteady motion on 2D airfoil (see Blade element theory). By wind tunnel experiments, it has been found that the behavior of an airfoil under unsteady motion...
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fundamental theorem in aerodynamics used for the calculation of lift of an airfoil (and any two-dimensional body including circular cylinders) translating...
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Blade solidity (section Flow over isolated airfoil)
that inter relates turbomachine parameter to airfoil parameter. Lift and drag coefficient for an airfoil is inter related to blade solidity as shown:...
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the change in direction of air deflected by the aerodynamic action of an airfoil, wing, or helicopter rotor blade in motion, as part of the process of producing...
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design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils. Given the coordinates specifying the shape of a 2D airfoil, Reynolds and Mach numbers, XFOIL can calculate...
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Foil kite (redirect from Airfoil kite)
Foil kites are soft kites based on the design of the parafoil. They consist of a number of cells running fore to aft, some or all of which are open at...
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applicable to solid bodies with sharp corners, such as the trailing edges of airfoils. It is named for German mathematician and aerodynamicist Martin Kutta....
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transonic flight through the use of anti-shock bodies and supercritical airfoils. Most modern jet powered aircraft are engineered to operate at transonic...
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transonic airfoil. The airfoil is operating at a Mach number of 0.8 and an angle of attack of 1.25 degrees. We assume that the shape of the airfoil is uncertain;...
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Bernoulli's principle (section Airfoil lift)
motion. "When a stream of air flows past an airfoil, there are local changes in velocity round the airfoil, and consequently changes in static pressure...
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consisting of a small vane usually attached to a lifting surface (or airfoil, such as an aircraft wing) or a rotor blade of a wind turbine. VGs may...
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dynamic drag: skin friction and form drag. The drag coefficient of a lifting airfoil or hydrofoil also includes the effects of lift-induced drag. The drag coefficient...
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a rotating power-driven hub, to which are attached two or more radial airfoil-section blades such that the whole assembly rotates about a longitudinal...
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the air adjacent to the trailing edge of an airfoil as it is accelerated from rest. It leaves the airfoil (which now has an equal but opposite "bound...
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atmosphere relative to an aircraft or an airfoil. It is opposite to the direction of movement of the aircraft or airfoil relative to the atmosphere. Close to...
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dynamics, the Küssner effect describes the unsteady aerodynamic forces on an airfoil or hydrofoil caused by encountering a transverse gust. This is directly...
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