OPTIMIZATION of wing design aims at finding the best compromise between conflicting aerodynamic requirements and considerations of structure weight and stiffness. Since the profile drag of a laminarizcd aircraft is very small, the induced drag has to be correspondingly reduced for proper matching. Reduction of induced drag can only be obtained, for a given dynamic pressure at the cruise, by increasing the span, and that reflects on structure weight.


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    Title :

    Boundary Layer Control for Low Drag


    Subtitle :

    A Review of the Present Situation and an Assessment of the Potentialities of Laminarization Techniques


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1962-04-01


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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