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Simulation flat plate airfoil
Quote from harry on 23. June 2023, 08:23Hi, I’m Harry, I’m currently doing research for my final thesis project on designing a windmill water pump, for the configuration I used is a flat plate type airfoil, after I tried using a flat plate type airfoil the results couldn’t be simulated, for that I want to ask how to do a flat plate airfoil simulation so that it can be simulated on qblade?
Hi, I’m Harry, I’m currently doing research for my final thesis project on designing a windmill water pump, for the configuration I used is a flat plate type airfoil, after I tried using a flat plate type airfoil the results couldn’t be simulated, for that I want to ask how to do a flat plate airfoil simulation so that it can be simulated on qblade?
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Quote from David on 23. June 2023, 16:49Hi Harry,
plat plates cannot be modeled in XFoil – however in the literature you can easily find lift/drag/moment polars for flap plates – I would believe there are also somewhat analytical formulas to get to the coefficients. Importing the coefficients into QBlade is then an easy task.
BR,
David
Hi Harry,
plat plates cannot be modeled in XFoil – however in the literature you can easily find lift/drag/moment polars for flap plates – I would believe there are also somewhat analytical formulas to get to the coefficients. Importing the coefficients into QBlade is then an easy task.
BR,
David
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