Airfoil developments and polar measurements in the laminar wind tunnel of the institute for aerodynamics and gasdynamics at the university of Stuttgart.
This book contains 116 airfoils measured in the laminar wind tunnel in Stuttgart. The airfoils come from low-velocity aerodynamics and are important in the areas of sailing flight, amateur flight and business flight, for aeronautical authorities and the use of wind energy. For this reason, the aircraft industry, the development of windenergy plants, research institutions as well as associations of sailplane constructors will benefit from the book.
In a separate section, measurements of special configurations are described, such as two symmetrical airfoils in tandem position, an airfoil with a Gurney-flap, the influence of the trailing edge thickness of a wing, the influence of laminar separation bubbles, the measurement of the wake of a cylinder (tower of a wind turbine), drag measurements on an airfoil with different roughness elements as a function of the Reynolds number, etc. Helpfully, a floppy disk is included which provides the user with the coordinates of the airfoils and the relevant aerodynamic coefficients of the airfoil polars in tabulated form.
airfoils - contours - velocity distributions - measurement and test results from 116 low-speed airfoils.
Dieter Althaus was director of the laminar wind tunnel at the institute for aerodynamics and gasdynamics of the Stuttgart university.