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Originally Posted by kach22i
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If your school had a copy of the 1951 book, 'Aerodynamic Drag,' by Sighard Hoerner,I think it would really help you.
Hoerner was a German aerodynamicist brought over to the US under the 'Operation Paper Clip' and went to work at Wright Aeronautical Laboratory at Dayton,Ohio.
He was involved in aircraft and automobile wind tunnel research.His book is a gold mine of information.With it,you'd have a sense for :
*canopies
*blisters
*fairings
*wings
*struts
*super-velocity
*interference
*induced drag
*transverse flow
*vorticity
There's a complete section on boundary layer theory.
It's all in there!
The school should also have a copy of Baron Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld's 'Aerodynamiks des Kraftfahrtzeugs',also published in 1951.It's as important as Hoerner's book.
Between the two you'd have some really hard science to borrow from when doing these complex designs.I think you'd love 'em both.
