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Thin wing theory is an efficient tool for the study of the spanwise variation of aerodynamic characteristics which has effect on the total lift and moment coefficient of a finite wing. This variation is considerably slow except at the tip region of the high aspect ratio wings
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Gülçat, Ü. (2016). Incompressible Flow About Thin Wings. In: Fundamentals of Modern Unsteady Aerodynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0018-8_4
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