CAVITY FLOW AROUND CAMBERED HYDROFOILS

Abstract

An analytical study is made of the flow past hydrofoils with large camber at arbitrary angles of attack. The class of hydrofoils considered is restricted to those whose hodograph plane has a shape very near that bounded by two circular arcs. Under this assumption a general method is derived to calculate the parameters of the flow. In addition, a short-cut procedure is introduced for estimating the lift and drag coefficients. As a numerical example to illustrate the theory the flow past a circular-arc foil is considered. The force coefficients are in good agreement with the values computed by Rosenhead.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0429509

Entities

People

  • Ahmed El Nimr
  • Byrne Perry

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analytic Functions
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Coefficients
  • Complex Variables
  • Computational Science
  • Conformal Mapping
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Hodographs
  • Hydrofoils
  • New York
  • Shape
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture