Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2016
The aerodynamics of a thin airfoil of arbitrary camber having a porous trailing edge in steady, subsonic, compressible potential flow is investigated. In the special case of a flat plate airfoil with a porous trailing edge, an exact, closed form solution is obtained using complex variable theory. The pressure loading on the airfoil, the lift and pitching moments are exhibited explicitly along with typical numerical results. The corresponding situation in supersonic flow is also considered.