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Test cases for the plane potential flow past multi-element aerofoils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Suddhoo
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Manchester
I. M. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Manchester

Summary

The method of images is used to calculate the analytical solution for an inviscid incompressible flow past four arbitrary circles which are then conformally mapped onto aerofoil sections. The analytical solution of the corresponding flow past the system of aerofoils is obtained and the pressure distributions about a particular three-element and a particular fourelement aerofoil are presented. These results are intended to be used to assess the accuracy of numerical methods.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1985 

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