Title: Incompressible Flow Past a Wing-Body Combination Using General Curvilinear Coordinates
Abstract: Summary It is shown, by the successive application of coordinate transformations involving complex analytic functions, how a general curvilinear coordinate system can be constructed which is suitable for geometries consisting of a finite surface together with two semi-infinite cylinders. A typical example of such a geometry is considered which comprises a wing-body combination in which two semi-infinite unswept wings are attached to a finite body. The potential problem associated with non-lifting incompressible flow past the wing-body combination is formulated in the general curvilinear coordinate system and is solved numerically. The distribution of the pressure coefficient over the wing-body surface is presented.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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