Abstract: “Direct” small disturbance approaches to inviscid aerodynamic “inverse” or “design” problems in two and three-dimensional, subsonic, supersonic, and transonic flow, are given which extend the stream ...

Abstract: Steady, inviscid, planar and constant density shear flows past thin airfoils have strongly coupled thickness and camber flowfields which can be simply analyzed using some invariant properties of ...

Abstract: For flows with prescribed parallel shear far upstream, the vorticity generation term in the disturbance stream-function (Ψ) equation and the Bernoulli “constant,” both of which vary from stream ...

Abstract: The inverse problem, which determines an airfoil geometry given some specified surface pressure, is considered in the subsonic, thin-airfoil limit. The full governing equations are expanded in ...

Abstract: The “inverse” or “design” problem in aerodynamics, which solves for the airfoil shape that induces a prescribed chordwise surface pressure subject to additional requirements on trailing edge ...