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Old 10-12-2020, 06:11 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
Particularly the whatever's.

Naca 0012 series operations in the reynolds transition portion flew generally the best. Since this is model scale applications, we don't know exactly what the boundary layer state is as it is immeasurable, therefore whatever
Yeah, they test at three different Reynolds number, and without knowing that specifically, even though we know the wing dimensions, and turbulence factor, we can't peg the velocity necessary for that Rn to consider LBL or TBL or transition points.
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