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- /*
- * naca.c
- *
- * Generate points for the NACA 4 and 5 digit airfoils.
- *
- * NACA 4-digit Airfoils
- *
- * The first digit gives the camber (in % chord); the second the x-value
- * of the max. camber point (in tenths chord); the last two are the thickness
- * (in % chord.). Thus a NACA 4312 has a 4% camber, with max. camber at 30%
- * chord, and has a thickness of 12%.
- *
- * The camber line consists of two parabolae that are joined smoothly with
- * horizontal slope at the max. camber point (x_a, y_a). Thus the equations
- * for the camber line become:
- *
- * y = y_a/x_a^2 x (2x_a - x) 0 <= x <= x_a
- * y = y_a / (1 - x_a)^2 (1 - x)(1 + x - 2x_a) x_a <= x <= 1
- *
- * This camber line deforms the standard NACA streamline shape:
- * +-d = t [ 1.4845 sqrt(x) - 0.63 x - 1.758 x^2 + 1.4215 x^3 - 0.5075 x^4 ]
- *
- * So for each point x, find the point on the camber line c(x) and the normal
- * to it. Then along the normal find points at a distance of +- d, the
- * thickness function. (This is an approximation, for small camber.)
- *
- *
- * NACA 5-digit Airfoils
- *
- * The 4-digit airfoils have the property that at the max. camber point the
- * radius of curvature changes discontinuously. This implies a discontinuous
- * centripetal acceleration in the airstream; to ameliorate this, the camber
- * line is modified to one of two forms:
- *
- * i) the "simple" camber line: this consists of a cubic joined to a straight
- * line. At the joining point, both the slope and curvature are continuous.
- * ii) the "reflexed" camber line: this consists of two cubics joined together
- *
- * The second digit is the design lift coefficient.
- * The third digit is either 0 (simple camber) or 1 (reflexed camber). The
- * last two digits are thickness just as in the 4-digit case. The first two
- * digits define the camber line. The second digit is multiplied by 5 to give
- * the position of max camber. The max. camber is defined according to this
- * table:
- * second digit -> 1 2 3 4 5
- * first digit
- * 2 1.1 1.5 1.8 2.1 2.3
- * 3 2.3 2.8 3.1
- * 4 3.1 3.7 4.2
- * 6 4.6 5.5 6.2
- *
- * Unfortunately I don't know how to generate the camber line from this
- * information; for each cubic now we have two points and one slope, which is
- * not enough to uniqely determine the curves.
- *
- */
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