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Thin airfoils with small trailing-edge flaps at arbitrary angles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

E. O. Tuck
E. O. Tuck
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, University of Adelaide, G. P. O. Box 498, Adelaide, S.A. 5001, Australia.
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Abstract

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The method of matched asymptotic expanisions is used to solve the problem of flow over a thin airfoil possessing a trailing-edge appendage, which may be of a general character, but is confined to a region of small size compated to the airfoil' chord. A feature of this asymptotic solution is effective de-coupling of the flow problems for the main airfoil and the flap. The special case of an attached flat flap set at an arbitrary angle is solved in detail.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 142 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1987

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