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Title: Need explanations and tanslations of some terms...
Post by: Naudet on July 06, 2001, 05:12:00 AM

..used in this articel

 http://www.raf303.org/funked/cfd/ (http://www.raf303.org/funked/cfd/)

can someone explain and/or tanslate the following??

Wing twist distribution (page 239 top diagram)

Washout (page 239 in the text)

Wetted Area (Page 240)

Lift coefficent (page 241 bottom diagramm)

Thx for any help in advance

Title: Need explanations and tanslations of some terms...
Post by: --my-- on July 06, 2001, 07:25:00 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Naudet:
..used in this articel
 http://www.raf303.org/funked/cfd/ (http://www.raf303.org/funked/cfd/)

can someone explain and/or tanslate the following??

Wing twist distribution (page 239 top diagram)

Washout (page 239 in the text)

Wetted Area (Page 240)

Lift coefficent (page 241 bottom diagramm)

Thx for any help in advance

Some info is availabe on the web.

Wetted Area Calculations: http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/drag/wettedarea.html (http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/drag/wettedarea.html)
from Aircraft Design, Synthesi and Analysis: http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/AircraftDesign.html (http://adg.stanford.edu/aa241/AircraftDesign.html)

For Lift Coefficient see http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/liftco.html (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/liftco.html)
at Aerodynamics Index : http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.html (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.html)

Another useful site is See How It Flies: http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/title.html (http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/title.html)