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Old 8th Aug 2006, 09:53
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LD Max
 
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Originally Posted by bookworm
With your symmetric aerofoil, I'd agree that the average Cp is negative. But for the flat plate it's most definitely positive.
I did say this in my discussion of Q240 in my original post. Flat plates are effectively "Newtonian".

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