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Estimating The Subsonic Aerodynamic Center And Moment Components For Swept Wings, W. F. Phillips, Doug F. Hunsaker, R. J. Niewoehner
Estimating The Subsonic Aerodynamic Center And Moment Components For Swept Wings, W. F. Phillips, Doug F. Hunsaker, R. J. Niewoehner
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications
An improved method is presented for estimating the subsonic location of the semispan aerodynamic center of a swept wing and the aerodynamic moment components about that aerodynamic center. The method applies to wings with constant linear taper and constant quarter-chord sweep. The results of a computational fluid dynamics study for 236 wings show that the position of the semispan aerodynamic center of a wing depends primarily on aspect ratio, taper ratio, and quarter-chord sweep angle. Wing aspect ratio was varied from 4.0 to 20, taper ratios from 0.25 to 1.0 were investigated quarter-chord sweep angles were varied from 0 to …
Estimating The Subsonic Aerodynamic Center And Moment Components For Swept Wings, W. F. Phillips, Doug F. Hunsaker, R. J. Niewoehner
Estimating The Subsonic Aerodynamic Center And Moment Components For Swept Wings, W. F. Phillips, Doug F. Hunsaker, R. J. Niewoehner
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications
An improved method is presented for estimating the subsonic location of the semispan aerodynamic center of a swept wing and the aerodynamic moment components about that aerodynamic center. The method applies to wings with constant linear taper and constant quarter-chord sweep. The results of a computational fluid dynamics study for 236 wings show that the position of the semispan aerodynamic center of a wing depends primarily on aspect ratio, taper ratio, and quarter-chord sweep angle. Wing aspect ratio was varied from 4.0 to 20, taper ratios from 0.25 to 1.0 were investigated, quarter-chord sweep angles were varied from 0 to …