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Some Problems in Aerodynamics and Their Solution by Electrical Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

D. Küchemann and
S. C. Redshaw
D. Küchemann
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment
S. C. Redshaw
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Abstract

Some purely aerodynamical phenomena, which might profitably be investigated by means of electrical analogue computors, are described. No attempt has been made to furnish a complete catalogue of problems but rather to present current issues, the solution of which would aid the development of practical aerodynamics.

Consideration has only been given to those questions which can be solved more suitably by an analogue computor rather than by a digital machine, although the feasibility of partially solving certain of them by the use of an analogue computor, and completing the work with a digital machine, is mentioned.

In scope, the survey includes two and three dimensional aerofoils as well as interference and a number of special problems.

The relative merits of the various forms of analogue computors are not extensively discussed.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 543 , March 1956, pp. 191 - 197
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1956

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