Lifting body with reduced-strength trailing vortices

Details Lifting body with reduced-strength trailing vortices Lifting body with reduced-strength trailing vortices

1994-05-23

1996-02-20

Kashnikow, Andres

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft sustentation

Sustaining airfoils

244 35R, 244199, 244200, B64C 2110, B64C 2100

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ABSTRACT:
A lifting body moves relative to a fluid, thereby creating a vortex field in the fluid downstream of the lifting body. The lifting body has a predetermined lift distribution along the length thereof which enhances the velocity component of the fluid flow directed outwardly from the centroid of the vortex field to reduce the strength of trailing vortices. In a preferred embodiment, the lifting body is a wing with a perturbation proximate to the tip end of the wing planform trailing edge.

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