B356

OTHER: Aerodynamics - Airfoil

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Topic:

Location:

 

OTHER: Aerodynamics - Airfoil - Characteristics

1047

 

OTHER: Aerodynamics - Airfoil - Lift-curve Slope

1065

 

OTHER: Aerodynamics - Airfoil - Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical

1064

Note:

All of the airfoils can be plotted c/w coefficients on NVFoil freeware program.

FORM: Rotor - Blade - Hollmann

Program designed to calculate the blade flapping motion, lift, drag, bending moment and deflection in forward flight for an blade azimuth position and along the blade radius.

Books:

 

Helicopter Performance, Stability, and Control

Chapter 6

 

Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics

Chapter 7

 

Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics

Chapter 6

 

Theory of Wing Sections

All chapters

Additional Information:

Outside Web Sites:

 

UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database

 

 

Martin Hepperle's JavaFoil Applet

 

 

http://www.nasg.com/afdb/list-airfoil-e.phtml

Airfoil Database

 

http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html#helicopters

The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage ~ David Lednicer

 

XFoil

 

 

NASA TM 4741

1996 revision of the definition of the NACA airfoil sections.

 

http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/ads.html

U. of Illinois data base

 

JavaFoil by Martin Hepperle

Analysis of Airfoils

 

http://beadec1.ea.bs.dlr.de/Airfoils/javafoil.htm

May be the same as the one above

 

NACA 0012, 0015, 0018 & 0021 Airfoil Data

Coefficients etc.

 

Interactive Airfoil

The program built into this page allows you to experiment.

 

http://www.unicopter.com/B270.html

 

 

http://www.icemcfd.com/cfd/naca.html#01

 

 

http://www.aerodes.com/AERODES/helico-a/pale-helicoptere.htm

THE HELICOPTER BLADE

 

http://www.aero-space.nasa.gov/library/rpt460/index.htm

 

 

http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads.html

Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois has a large airfoil coordinate database.

 

http://www.mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/javafoil.htm

JavaFoil ~ to generate lift and drag plots

 

http://raphael.mit.edu/xfoil/

Xfoil ~ to generate lift and drag plots

 

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/airfoils/q0041.shtml

NACA Airfoil Series Good site

Description of Airfoils

 

The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil sections from Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel

1935

 

 

 

 

This Web Site:

 

SynchroLite - Rotor - Blade

 

UniCopter - Rotor - Blade

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