{"id":516,"date":"2017-08-14T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:53:38","slug":"airfoil-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/airfoil-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfoil Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, someone asked a good question.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can I find the aerodynamic properties of an airfoil?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my quick suggestion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple low-fidelity incompressible<\/strong> (camber line only, but works amazingly well):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thin airfoil theory (Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Chapter 4)<\/li>\n<li>Lesson 13 at <a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem313\/\">https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem313\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Medium low fidelity incompressible<\/strong> (camber and thickness)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panel methods (Katz &amp; Plotkin book is best&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Lesson 12 at <a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem614\/\">https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem614\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Numerical incompressible<\/strong> with boundary layers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>XFOIL software (free MIT software. My students have coupled it with other solvers. Lesson 12 at <a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem313\/\">https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem313\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Expensive computational<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CFD (don\u2019t unless you need a compressible viscous solution)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, someone asked a good question. How can I find the aerodynamic properties of an airfoil? Here&#8217;s my quick suggestion: Simple low-fidelity incompressible (camber line only, but works amazingly well): Thin airfoil theory (Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Chapter 4) Lesson 13 at https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/aem313\/ Medium low fidelity incompressible (camber and thickness) Panel methods (Katz &amp; Plotkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}