Airfoil Characteristics

Recently, someone asked a good question.

How can I find the aerodynamic properties of an airfoil?

Here’s my quick suggestion:

Simple low-fidelity incompressible (camber line only, but works amazingly well):

Medium low fidelity incompressible (camber and thickness)

Numerical incompressible with boundary layers

Expensive computational

  • CFD (don’t unless you need a compressible viscous solution)