AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND

MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
When an airfoil is placed in a moving stream of air, an aerodynamic force acting on it will be created.
Experimentally, this force (f) has been found to depend on the following variables:
1. Velocity of air, V
2. Air density, ⍴
3. Characteristic area or size, S
4. Coefficient of dynamic viscosity, μ
5. Speed of sound (compressibility effect), Va
6. Angle of attack, α
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
AERODYNAMIC FORCES AND MOMENTS ON AN AIRFOIL
PROBLEM SOLVING
An airfoil has a lift curve slope at 6.3/rad and angle at zero lift of -2deg. At what angle of attack will the
airfoil develop a lift of 140 lbs/ft at 100 mph under SSLC? Assume c = 8ft.

PROBLEM NO. 2
The aircraft is flying at a velocity of 50 m/s, at an altitude of 5000 m. Determine the lift/span created by
the rectangular wing, with chord of 2.5 m, and a span of 12 m. The airfoil is flying at an angle of attack
of 4 deg, and has the following details.

AOA CL
-1.5 deg 0
4 deg (unknown)
6 deg 0.6