Book Description

A new method has been developed for calculating the pressure distribution and aerodynamic characteristics of wing-body-tail combinations in subsonic and supersonic potential flow. A computer program has been developed to perform the numerical calculations. The configuration surface is subdivided into a large number of panels, each of which contains an aerodynamic singularity distribution. A constant source distribution is used on the body panels, and a vortex distribution having a linear variation in the streamwise direction is used on the wing and tail panels. The normal components of velocity induced at specified control points by each singularity distribution are calculated and make up the coefficients of a system of linear equations relating the strengths of the singularities to the magnitude of the normal velocities.