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    The airfoil is modeled as a thin lifting mean-line (camber line). The mean-line, y(x), is considered to produce a distribution of vorticity along the line, s. By the Kutta condition, the vorticity is zero at the trailing edge. Since the airfoil is thin, x (chord position) can be used instead of s, and all angles can be approximated as small.

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    The airfoil is modeled as a thin lifting mean-line (camber line). The mean-line, y(x), is considered to produce a distribution of vorticity along the line, s. By the Kutta condition, the vorticity is zero at the trailing edge. Since the airfoil is thin, x (chord position) can be used instead of s, and all angles can be approximated as small.

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    Red Turbulent Flow: Grey Subsonic Stream

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    The airfoil is modeled as a thin lifting mean-line (camber line). The mean-line, y(x), is considered to produce a distribution of vorticity along the line, s. By the Kutta condition, the vorticity is zero at the trailing edge. Since the airfoil is thin, x (chord position) can be used instead of s, and all angles can be approximated as small.

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    Laminar flow airfoil
    for a RC park flyer
    Laminar flow airfoil
    for a RC pylon racer
    Laminar flow airfoil
    for a manned
    propeller aircraft
    Laminar flow at a
    jet airliner airfoil
    table airfoil !"ed
    for flyin# win#"
    $ft loaded airfoil
    allowin# for a lar#e main "par and late "tall
    %ran"onic "!percritical airfoil
    !per"onic leadin# ed#e airfoil
    Color":
    &lack ' laminar flow(
    red ' t!rb!lent flow(
    #rey ' "!b"onic "tream(
    bl!e ' "!per"onic flow vol!me
    %he airfoil i" modeled a" a thin liftin# mean)line *camber line+, %he mean)line(
    y*-+( i" con"idered to prod!ce a di"trib!tion of vorticity alon# the line( ", &y the .!tta
    condition( the vorticity i" /ero at the trailin# ed#e, ince the airfoil i" thin( - *chord
    po"ition+ can be !"ed in"tead of "( and all an#le" can be appro-imated a" "mall,
    From the &iot0avart law( thi" vorticity prod!ce" a flow field where
    where i" the location
    where ind!ced velocity i" prod!ced( i" the location of the vorte- element prod!cin# the
    velocity and i" the chord len#th of the airfoil,
    ince there i" no flow normal to the
    c!rved "!rface of the airfoil( balance" that from the component of main flow ( which i"
    locally normal to the plate 0 the main flow i" locally inclined to the plate by an an#le ,
    %hat i":
    %hi" inte#ral
    e1!ation can by "olved for ( after replacin# - by
    (
    a" a Fo!rier "erie" in with a
    modified lead term
    %hat i"
    *%he"e term" are
    known a" the 2la!ert inte#ral+,
    %he coefficient" are #iven by
    and
    &y the .!tta03o!kow"ki
    theorem( the total lift force F i" proportional to
    and it" moment 4 abo!t the
    leadin# ed#e to
    %he calc!lated Lift coefficient
    depend" only on the fir"t two term" of the Fo!rier "erie"( a"
    %he moment 4 abo!t the leadin# ed#e depend" only on and ( a"
    %he moment abo!t the 567 chord point will th!" be(

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