25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-2.4.4

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION OF THE EULER EQUATIONS FOR AIRFOIL FLOW AT SUBSONIC AND TRANSONIC CONDITIONS

A. Verhoff
Consultant, Fluid Dynamics, USA

Keywords: euler equations, analytical solution, airfoil, subsonic, transonic

A procedure for analytical solution of the 2D Euler equations is presented and applied to airfoils at subsonic and transonic conditions. The dependent variable incorporates a large portion of nonlinear effects (i.e., compressibility and entropy) so that low-order solutions yield remarkably accurate results into the transonic range (including shock).

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