26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-3.7 ST2:

ESTIMATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF PROFILE ERROR ON AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE FOR LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER AIRFOILS

G. Ichikawa, K. Kasai, S. Motogoe
Shizuoka Univ., Japan

Keywords: Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils, Aerodynamic Characteristics, Human Powered Aircraft

We estimated the influence of profile error on aerodynamic performance for Low-Reynolds-Number airfoils by numerical analysis at Re 10^5 which corresponds to the flight environment of a human powered aircraft (HPA). In addition, we measured the profiles of the actual airfoils of HPA to evaluate the error.

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