AE 3903/4903 Airfoil Design

Course Objectives

Power Point Slides related to Course Objective

Airfoil Aerodynamics

Classical Work by Abbott and Doenhoff on NACA Airfoils

Discussion of Supercritical Airfoils designed by NASA by Harris (NASA TP 2969)

Panel Method:

Panel method – Theory

Panel method – MATLAB Code

Panel Method (Sample Input with annotations and explanations of input) Do not use this with the code

Panel Method Input (without annotations). Use this with the panel code

Transonic Potential Flow Method

Potential Flow Method Theory

Grid Generator for Transonic Airfoil Analysis (Fortran Source Code)

Grid Generator for Transonic Potential Flow Analysis (Executable on PCs)

Sample Input file for Grid Generator (For use with the executable file)

MATLAB based Grid Generator

Sample Input file for MATLAB based grid generator (Automatically opened and used by the code)

Transonic Potential Flow Fortran Source Code

Transonic Potential Flow Code (Executable on PCs)

Transonic Potential Flow MATLAB Version

Boundary Layer Analyses

Integral Quantities Definitions

Thwaites’ Method

Power Point Slides on Boundary Layer Analysis

Java Applets developed by Virginia Tech Researchers

PABLO (Potential flow around Airfoils with Boundary Layer coupled One-way) Web Site

Optimization Method

Background and Theory

PowerPoint Slides on Optimization and Inverse Design using MGM Method

Assignments:

Assignment #1

Assignment #2 : Validation of Analysis, Data for validating panel method, data for validating transonic potential flow method

Assignment #3 : Development of the design method

Assignment #4

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