You are on page 1of 2
For the NACA 2412 airfoil, calculate the location of the aerodynamic center. Consider a straight wing of aspect ratio 6 with an NACA 2412 airfoil. Assuming low-speed flow, calculate the lift coefficientat an angle of attack of 6°. For this wing, the span effectiveness factor e, = 0.95. What is the lift coefficient for the same wing at the same angle of attack as in Example 2.5, but for a free-stream Mach number of 0,7? Calculate the lift coefficient for a high-aspect-ratio straight wing with a thin symmetric airfoil at an angle of attack of 6° in a supersonic flow in Mach 2.5. Helmbold’s equation for low-aspect-ratio straight wings, Eq. (2.182), in the limit as the aspect ratio becomes very large, reduces to Eq. (2.15) for high-aspect-ratio straight wings. Indeed, Eq, (2.1'8a) can be viewed as a higher approximation that holds for both low- and high-aspect- ratio straight wings, providing even greater accuracy than Eq. (2.15) for the high-aspect-ratio case, albeit the differences are small for high aspect ratios, To illustrate this, calculate the lift coefficient for the wing described in Example 2.5 at 6° angle of attack, using Helmbold’s equation, and compare the results with those from Example 2.5 using Eq, (2.15). Consider a straight wing of aspect ratio 2 with an NACA 2412 airfoil. Assuming low-speed flow, calculate the lift coefficient at an angle of attack of 6°. Assume ¢ = 0.95. Calculate the lift coefficient for a straight wing of aspect of ratio 2 at an angle of attack of 6° in a supersonic flow at Mach 2.5. Assume a thin, symmetric airfoil section. Consider the wing described in Example 2.5, except with a sweep angle of 35°. Calculate the low-speed lift coefficient at 6° angle of attack and compare with the straight-wing results from Example 2.5.

You might also like