Influence of Thickness Variation on the Flapping Performance of Symmetric NACA Airfoils in Plunging Motion

In order to investigate the impact of airfoil thickness on flapping performance, the unsteady flow fields of a family of airfoils from an NACA0002 airfoil to an NACA0020 airfoil in a pure plunging motion and a series of altered NACA0012 airfoils in a pure plunging motion were simulated using computa...

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Main Authors: Liangyu Zhao, Shuxing Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/675462