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A Shortened Method for the Calculation of Aerofoil Profile Drag*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. M. Dowlen
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Summary

A rapid method is developed for estimating the profile drag of an aerofoil with a known transition point position. The results are in good agreement with previous calculations.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 494 , February 1952 , pp. 109 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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Footnotes

*

An extract from College of Aeronautics Report No. 35.

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