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Old Nov 14, 2006 | 03:47 PM
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Default What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

I know that there is a good number of people on here that are doing things in school dealing with the automotive industry. I need to write a paper tonight that's all about aerodynamics and for half of the paper, I'm to write about airfoils being used on airplanes, F1 cars, and passenger cars. I've found some sites that were alright, but i figured it couldn't hurt to post up incase any of you that have dealt with this stuff already already know of some good sites that could help out.

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Old Nov 14, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

What class is this for?
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 04:52 PM
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http://www.zenithair.com/kit-data/ht-87-5.html

http://www.nasg.com/afdb/index-e.phtml

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pber.html

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...ls/q0041.shtml

http://www.desktopaero.com/appliedae...lgeometry.html

http://www.zenithair.com/kit-data/ht-87-5.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...s/airfoil.html
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Hope those are helpfull, I liked especialy the Hyperphysics ones.
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

Originally Posted by Fabrik8
What class is this for?
It's just for a general introduction to engineering class. I don't need to go into too much detail with it
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Hope those are helpfull, I liked especialy the Hyperphysics ones.
I'm looking at them right now, looks like good stuff, i appreciate it man
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:05 PM
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pber.html

Nice, that one also explains why a baseball curves, which is another part of the paper that i needed to write. Thanks man
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

might not be as good as the others but try wikipedia.org and click through the links in the article.
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:09 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

Yea, as soon as you said airfoil Bernoulli dinged in my head so I got some stuff on it.
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:11 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

This is also a reason that 2 ships traveling at speed cannot run to close together. Bernoulli's principal dictates that they will be sucked in to eachother, and collide. I have seen it in persone, and I can verify that this is very true lol.



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