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The oblique wing as a lifting-line problem in transonic flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

H. K. Cheng  and
S. Y. Meng
H. K. Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007
S. Y. Meng
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007
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Abstract

A transonic-flow theory of thin, oblique wing of high aspect ratio is presented, which permits a delineation of the influence of wing sweep, the centre-line curvature, and other three-dimensional (3D) effects on the nonlinear mixed flow in the framework of small-disturbance theory. In the (parameter) domain of interest, the flow field far from the wing section pertains to a high subsonic, or linear sonic, outer flow, representable by a Prandtl–Glauert solution involving a swept, as well as curved, lifting line in the leading approximation.

Among the 3D effects is one arising from the compressibility correction to the velocity divergence, absent in classical works; this effect also leads to a correction in the outer flow in the form of an oblique line source. More important is the upwash corrections which includes the influence of both the near and far wakes, as well as the local curvature of the centre-line. For straight oblique wings, local similarities exist in the 3D flow structure, permitting the reduced equations to be solved once for all span stations. An analogy also exists between the oblique-wing problem and that of a 2D transonic flow which is weakly time-dependent; this provides an alternative method of solving numerically the inner airfoil problem.

Solutions to the reduced problem are demonstrated and compared with full-potential solutions for elliptic oblique wings involving high subcritical as well as slightly supercritical component flows.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , 15 April 1980 , pp. 531 - 556
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© 1980 Cambridge University Press

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