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A Joukowski airfoil

Flat plate airfoil without circulation

Cylinder flow:


Program cylinder.m

Pressure for this cylinder flow (not valid after mapping):


Program cylpres.m

Conformally mapped flat plate airfoil:


Program airfoil.m

Flat plate airfoil with circulation

The airfoil below has just enough circulation to satisfy the Kutta condition at the trailing edge.

Cylinder flow:


Program cylinder.m

Conformally mapped flat plate airfoil:


Program airfoil.m

Symmetric Joukowski airfoil

Slightly bigger cylinder flow:


Program cylinder.m

Conformally mapped Joukowski airfoil:


Program airfoil.m

See also viscous airfoil flow pictures


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