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Analysis of High-Lift Wing Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

Suresh H Goradia and
Gene T Colwell
Suresh H Goradia
Affiliation:
Lockheed Georgia Company, Marietta
Gene T Colwell
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Summary

A method which can be used for the design of blown or unblown wing sections is described in this paper. A brief description of a variety of theoretical methods for computation of different fluid flow phenomena encountered on high-lift wing systems is presented. The most significant type of viscous flow - a confluent boundary layer flow, which is present on the upper surface of the flap, the vane and the main component of a high-lift system – is described and its importance to the performance of high-lift systems is illustrated. Results of computation of pressure distribution, boundary-layer characteristic, and lift coefficient for two-dimensional high-lift systems are compared with experimental data in order to establish the validity and limitations of the method.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , May 1975, pp. 88 - 108
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1975

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