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Transonic wind tunnel tests have been carried out on a shockless lifting aerofoil designed by the method of Bauer, Garabedian and Korn. Two models of different chord lengths were tested to provide some information on tunnel wall interference. Close to the design point the analysis method of Garabedian and Korn agrees well with the experimental measurements. Optical flow visualisation results indicate that the design point flow is, for practical purposes, shock free and measured pressure distributions provide further experimental verification of the design method.
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Pollock, N., Fairlie, B.D. (1976). An Experimental Investigation of Garabedian and Korn’s Shockless Lifting Aerofoil No. 1. In: Oswatitsch, K., Rues, D. (eds) Symposium Transsonicum II. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81005-3_32
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