Publication Date:
2010-11-08
Description:
It is shown that the drag of any semi-infinite airfoil section in purely subsonic inviscid flow follows precisely the Prandtl-Glauert compressibility rule. The result for the parabola has application to leading edge corrections in thin airfoil theory.
Keywords:
AERODYNAMICS
Type:
Collected Works of Robert T. Jones; p 619-623
Format:
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