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The Zenithair CH-750 airfoil has both the highest maximum lift coefficient (approximately 1.70) as well as the largest lift coefficient at an angle of attack of zero degrees (0.40). This is as a result of the high camber and large thickness-to-chord ratio employed on this airfoil. The wing size needed to meet the stall speed requirement is larger than the optimum wing for cruise performance. Because of this, the maximum lift performance of the wing is relevant to cruise performance because the higher the CLMAX, the smaller the wing can be. Reducing wing size reduces wetted area and, all other things being equal, reduces the parasite drag of the airplane in cruise.
Lift:
When the wind is obstructed by an object such as a flat plate, a building, or the deck of a bridge, the object will experience drag and also an aerodynamic force perpendicular to the wind. Airfoils are highly-efficient lifting shapes, able to generate more lift than similarly sized flat plates of the same area, and able to generate lift with significantly less drag. Airfoils are used in the design of aircraft, propellers, rotor blades, wind turbines and other applications of aeronautical engineering. Once you are comfortable with the definitions given above you should be able to describe an airfoil design in terms of thickness and camber.
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Notice how thin the airfoil looks in relation to the CH-750 and C210 pictured above. This is an airfoil designed for supersonic speeds and as a result needs to be shaped almost like a diamond in order to keep shockwaves from forming at high speed. The supersonic aerodynamics at play here is too in depth for this discussion; suffice to say that this thin airfoil is built for speed and not to produce large amounts of lift at low speed.
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There are many camber line profiles in the NACA portfolio, including the two-digit and three-digit camber lines, some examples of which are shown in the figure below. The first two digits define the amount of camber, and chordwise location of maximum camber, e.g., the NACA 2408 has a 2% camber, the maximum camber location is at 40% of the chord length, and the airfoil is 8% thick. Further examples of the effects of compressibility on the lift and drag characteristics of an airfoil are shown in the two figures below.
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Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft is a good source for civil aircraft, often requiring a university library trip. A comprehensive online list of airplanes and the airfoil(s) that they use has also been prepared. Consider the flow about an airfoil in the form of a double-wedge or diamond shape experiencing a supersonic flow, as shown below. Unlike a subsonic airfoil with smooth surface curvature, a double-wedge airfoil is ideal for supersonic flow. Notice that the upstream flow gets no warning of the approaching airfoil in a supersonic flow, so the streamlines have no curvature. An example of a measured (discrete) pressure distribution around an airfoil at subsonic conditions is shown below.
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This geometric feature produces a favorable pressure gradient over more of the leading edge, thereby encouraging the boundary layer to be laminar for longer. The downside is that such airfoils typically produce lower values of maximum lift coefficient, i.e., stall occurs at lower angles of attack. To this end, not all airfoils are created equally, and different airfoil shapes will be better suited for one application versus another.
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Zenith Aircraft Co. CH-750
These distributions are not uniform and can be positive or negative, e.g., a higher pressure pushing inward toward the surface (as shown in red) or a lower pressure pulling outward away from the surface (shown in green). In addition, boundary layer-induced shear stresses can be positive (flow moving downstream) or negative (e.g., reversed flow). As the flow in the outer region is dominated by classical thin airfoil theory, Morris's equations exhibit many components of thin airfoil theory.
Since the pressure below the wing is higherthan the pressure above the wing, there is a net force upwards. Lift and weight are two of the four forces acting on an airplane, the other twoare drag and thrust (see Figure 1). The above methods rely on the defining of performance criteria for the airfoil, whereby altering the shape modifies the performance variables.
Pressure & Shear Stress Coefficients
Notice the more significant pressure increase on the lower surface, which contributes significantly to the lift. At the points of maximum thickness, expansion waves appear, which causes the Mach number to increase and the pressure to decrease after the expansion is complete. Rarefaction shock waves form at the trailing edge, increasing the Mach number and returning the pressure to the free-stream value. A supersonic airfoil shape is designed to operate at Mach numbers greater than unity.
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This requires adjusting to different headwinds and air pressures, which is why many airfoils are flexible or able to change their angle of attack in the air. Because commercial jet airliners need to reach higher and higher cruise speeds approaching the speed of sound, i.e., for flight at transonic Mach numbers, this requirement has led to the design of unique wing shapes called supercritical wings. A supercritical wing also uses a supercritical airfoil to reduce the strength of shock waves, thereby reducing wave drag and increasing the drag divergence Mach number, the principle of which is shown in the figure below. Oblique compression shock waves occur at the leading edge of the airfoil. The Mach number across the shocks decreases (but remains supersonic), and the static pressure increases over the free-stream value.
Increasing the angle of attack produces significant suction (negative) pressures on the upper surface, the lowest at the leading edge. At an angle of attack of 8.1, the negative pressures reach a peak value of about . The standard practice is to calculate (or measure) the pressure distributions around airfoils and plot the results in terms of pressure coefficient, , as a function of a non-dimensional distance or chord, . Remember that to determine the pressure coefficient, the value of free-stream dynamic pressure is needed, as discussed previously, which requires that the density of the air be obtained from measurements of ambient pressure and temperature.
The thicker boundary layer also causes a large increase in pressure drag, so that the overall drag increases sharply near and past the stall point. You will remember that the CH-750 is able to get airborne in only 100 ft (30 m). Selecting an airfoil with a high maximum lift coefficient means that the speed at which the wing is able to produce sufficient lift to get the aircraft airborne is lower, resulting in a very short takeoff roll. In fact the manufacturers specification sheet states that the stall speed is 35 mph (56 km/hr or 15.56 m/s).
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