A novel wing design concept is introduced which takes advantage of the existence of conical flow at supersonic speeds. The present wing design concept is to create a near conical wing geometry by redistributing airfoils in a spanwise direction. In addition, a set of graphs which review the supersonic aerodynamics of delta wings have been employed to select a design wing sweep and Mach number. An iteration through the wing design logic resulted in the selection of a 65 deg swept delta wing and a design Mach number of 1.62. Theoretical analysis was performed with a nonlinear full-potential analysis method to assess the merits of the wing design approach. The analysis showed large reductions in drag due to lift compared to delta wings configured with traditional thickness and airfoil distributions.
Evaluation of a three-dimensional empirically derived wing at supersonic speeds
1988-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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