Title
A Quasi-Linear and Linear Theory for Non-Separated and Separated Two-Dimensional, Incompressible Irrotational Flow about Lifting Bodies
Publisher
St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory
Abstract
A general theory is developed for calculating lift, form drag, and
moment applicable to thin bodies at small angles of attack without separation
or with separation at an arbitrary number of given points. The separated flows
are related to fully cavitated and partially cavitated flows by making use of the concept of free streamlines. The closure condition of free-streamline theory is replaced by a boundedness condition. Unique solutions are thereby obtained for a large variety of problems. The mathematical solution involves a Riemann-Hilbert mixed boundary
value problem in an upper-half plane. The general solution for this problem
is given in the Appendix and is applied to various kinds of mixed boundary
conditions. The method is exemplified by means of four illustrative calculations.
As may be expected when the boundary profile is truly linear, the solution agrees
with the classic exact solution.
Description
Contract Nonr 710(24), Task NR 062-052
Funding information
Office of Naval Research Department of the Navy
Suggested Citation
Song, C. S..
(1963).
A Quasi-Linear and Linear Theory for Non-Separated and Separated Two-Dimensional, Incompressible Irrotational Flow about Lifting Bodies.
St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/108055.