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Aerodynamics of Airfoils with Porous Trailing Edges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

C. Samuel Ventres  and
Richard Barakat
C. Samuel Ventres
Affiliation:
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
Richard Barakat
Affiliation:
Harvard University, and Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
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Summary

The aerodynamics of a thin airfoil of arbitrary camber having a porous trailing edge in steady, subsonic, compressible potential flow is investigated. In the special case of a flat plate airfoil with a porous trailing edge, an exact, closed form solution is obtained using complex variable theory. The pressure loading on the airfoil, the lift and pitching moments are exhibited explicitly along with typical numerical results. The corresponding situation in supersonic flow is also considered.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 1979 , pp. 387 - 399
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1979

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