Wind Speeds and AOA of an Aerofoil.

[Zeke]

Rusty,

It took a while for some very smart people to work out what you are asking.

I would start with a rotating cylinder then apply a Joukowski transformation to get an aerofoil.

You can transform a cylinder to an aerofoil, and you also transform the flow about a cylinder to flow about a aerofoil.











You can play with the nasa foil sim to calculate the ideal lift generated for an aerofoil.

Z

Some links to look at http://www.diam.unige.it/~irro/cilindro1a_e.html http://www.diam.unige.it/~irro/java/conformi1_0.html http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~dacheson/a6.html http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/www/K-12/aerosim/ http://www.aero.usyd.edu.au/aero/jouk/jouk.html