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A criterion for leading-edge separation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

E. O. Tuck
E. O. Tuck
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5001
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Abstract

The maximum angle of attack for unseparated flow over an airfoil of chord c with finite nose radius of curvature r is shown to be 0.818(r/c)½

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 222 , January 1991 , pp. 33 - 37
Copyright
© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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