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The document discusses the process for selecting the vertical location of the wing and determining the airfoil section for a wing. It describes creating a table to compare different wing configuration options based on weighted design objectives, and selecting the highest scoring option. It also discusses the two approaches of either designing a custom airfoil or selecting from existing airfoils, and outlines the criteria and procedure for selecting the best pre-existing airfoil.

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Topic 5 Wing-Design Page 13

The document discusses the process for selecting the vertical location of the wing and determining the airfoil section for a wing. It describes creating a table to compare different wing configuration options based on weighted design objectives, and selecting the highest scoring option. It also discusses the two approaches of either designing a custom airfoil or selecting from existing airfoils, and outlines the criteria and procedure for selecting the best pre-existing airfoil.

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5.3.5.

The Selection Process The best approach to select the wing vertical location is to produce a table (such as table 5.1) consists of weight of each option for various design objectives. The weight of each design objective must be usually designated such that the summation adds up to 100%. A comparison between the summations of points among four options leads the designer to the best configuration. Table 5.1 illustrates a sample table to compare four wing configurations in the wing design process for a cargo aircraft. All elements of this table must be carefully filled with numbers. The last row is the summation of all numbers in each column. In the case of this table, the high wing has gained the highest point (93), so high wing seems to be the best candidate for the sample problem. As it is observed, even the high wing configuration does not fully satisfy all design requirements, but it is an optimum option among four available options. Reference 5 is a rich resource for the procedure of the selection technique.

5.4. Airfoil
This section is devoted to the process to determine airfoil section for a wing. It is appropriate to claim that the airfoil section is the second most important wing parameter; after wing planform area. The airfoil section is responsible for the generation of the optimum pressure distribution on the top and bottom surfaces of the wing such that the required lift is created with the lowest aerodynamic cost (i.e. drag and pitching moment). Although every aircraft designer has some basic knowledge of aerodynamics and the basics of airfoils; but to have a uniform starting point, the concept of airfoil and its governing equations will be reviewed. The section begins with a discussion on airfoil selection or airfoil design. Then basics of airfoil, airfoil parameters, and most important factor on airfoil section will be presented. A review of NACA4 - the forerunner of NASA5- airfoils will be presented later, since the focus in this section is on the airfoil selection. The criteria for airfoil selection will be introduced and finally the procedure to select the best airfoil is introduced. The section will be ended with a fully solved example to select an airfoil for a candidate wing. 5.4.1. Airfoil Design or Airfoil Selection The primary function of the wing is to generate lift force. This will be generated by a special wing cross section called airfoil. Wing is a three dimensional component, while the airfoil is two dimensional section. Because of the airfoil section, two other outputs of the airfoil, and consequently the wing, are drag and pitching moment. The wing may have a constant or a non-constant cross-section across the wing. This topic will be discussed in section 5.9. There are two ways to determine the wing airfoil section: 1. Airfoil design 2. Airfoil selection The design of the airfoil is a complex and time consuming process and needs expertise in fundamentals of aerodynamics at graduate level. Since the airfoil needs to be verified by testing it in a wind tunnel, it is expensive too. Large aircraft production companies such as Boeing and Airbus have sufficient human expert (aerodynamicists) and budget to design their own airfoil for every aircraft, but small aircraft companies, experimental aircraft producers and homebuilt
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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics National Administration for Aeronautics and Astronautics

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