In 1924, Ludwig Prandtl published a fundamental paper in which he showed that the lifting system with minimum induced drag is a box wing. The results were obtained through an approximate procedure. In the present paper we obtain an exact solution of Prandtl’s problem. In particular, we prove that the lift on the horizontal wings results of the superposition of a constant and an elliptical distributions and, on the vertical wings, it is butterfly shaped, as already shown by Prandtl. The discrepancies between the two solutions are discussed.


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    Titel :

    Best wing system: an exact solution of the Prandtl’s problem


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Springer Optimization


    Beteiligte:
    Frediani, Aldo (Autor:in) / Montanari, Guido (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    15.06.2009


    Format / Umfang :

    29 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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