Willmarth, William W. (1954) The lift of thin airfoils at high-subsonic speeds. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01222004-114509
Experimental results are presented for the lift characteristics of thin, two-dimensional airfoils at high-subsonic speeds and small angles of attack. Symmetrical airfoils with different locations of maximum thickness were investigated using a surface pressure probe technique which should find use in other applications.
The flow fields over each airfoil are discussed and the quantitative results for the lift and location of the center of lift are compared with theory whenever possible. The effects of flow separation caused by boundary-layer shock-wave interaction are noted and discussed. In particular, the possibility of the forced oscillation of control surfaces due to boundary layer separation is mentioned.
|Item Type:||Thesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))|
|Degree Grantor:||California Institute of Technology|
|Division:||Engineering and Applied Science|
|Thesis Availability:||Public (worldwide access)|
|Defense Date:||1 January 1954|
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|Deposited On:||28 Jan 2004|
|Last Modified:||26 Dec 2012 02:28|
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