Dennis
The 16 series is hard to better.
You can dial in almost anything using the modified 4 digit series.
I expect you will find a cambered section does quite a bit better but then I have not compared the boat polars with the different sections; just the basic wing paramaters.
Rick
On 18/05/2011, at 5:37 AM, Dennis Cox wrote:
Rick,Concerning the foil section of the wing for your recent design study. In your general thoroughness, I imagine you compared to more conventional, symmetric foils to get a base line. I'm wanting to start looking at some trade studies for a wing for MLM. I've brushed off some old my old composite and mechanics of materials spreadsheets and started getting re-familiar with JavaFoil. I am wondering if you have any suggestions and thoughts for foil shapes besides the basic NACA 0012?And if you have any opinions concerning the added complexity of a flap per...... versus its benefits, I sure would dissect every word you put to electrons.Thanks,Dennis
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