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The publication of an airfoil catalog seems to be not very consequent today. There exist computer programs which allow the design of airfoils which are very good, if not optimally adapted to the requirements resulting from certain special applications. It may be better to design an entirely new airfoil for an application rather than to look for an appropriate one in some catalog. It is not very likely to find an optimal airfoil there which has the correct thickness, the correct lift coefficient range and the correct moment coefficient, being tested for the intended flap arrangement, the right Reynolds number and the right surface roughness, to mention only a few criterions for the selection.
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Eppler, R. (1990). Introduction. In: Airfoil Design and Data. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02646-5_1
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