Potential Flow About Three-Dimensional Streamlined Lifting Configurations, with Application to Wings and Rotors.

Abstract

A numerical method is developed and successfully applied which is believed capable of converging to the exact calculation of three-dimensional lifting potential flows, including cases of unsteady motion. The principal current limitation on its precision is restricted funds for computation. The exact body surface boundary conditions are enforced, and all wake surfaces are unconstrained -- allowed to move with the local velocity field. The assumptions made in the theoretical model are that the fluids is ideal (incompressible and inviscid) and that no separation may take place.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA003697

Entities

People

  • J. Michael Summa

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Computations
  • Flow
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Properties
  • Potential Flow
  • Precision
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Operations Research