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Airfoil Data

Last Updated: 20-Aug-2012

Sources for finding Airfoil Data

Subject Librarians

Helen B Josephine
Head of the Terman Engineering Library
Engineering Library (Terman)
(650) 725-1012

Subjects

Aeronautics and astronautics

BOOKS

Theory of wing sections, including a summary of airfoil data, by Ira H. Abbott and Albert E. von Doenhoff.
[Corr. version, New York, Dover Publications [1959]
Engineering » Stacks, Non-circulating item » TL672 .A2 1959

TECHNICAL REPORTS

NASA Report

Loftin, Laurence K, Jr; Bursnall, William J. The effects of variations in Reynolds number between 3.0 x 10sub6 and 25.0 x 10sub6 upon the aerodynamic characteristics of a number of NACA 6-series airfoil sections (Langley Research Center, 1950).
Includes theory and profiles for NACA 4, 5, 6 digit series airfoils
Report number: NACA-TR-964 (Accessible via NASA Technical Reports)

WEB RESOURCES

Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage
This site lists the airfoil(s) used in the wing design of a particular aircraft.
UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Airfoil Data Site
Includes the Airfoil Coordinates Database, which describes more than 1,000 airfoils. The site also links to several other airfoil sites.
Wing Analysis Progam
A graphical program written in Java which computes the lift and C1 distribution over a wing with sweep and twist.
XFOIL: Subsonic Airfoil Development System
XFOIL is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils. The software is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The main site includes versions for various platforms.

DATABASES

Sources for research articles from journals and conference proceedings.

Aerospace & high technology database [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Aerospace & high technology database [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,