A study of slender, cambered, conical wings by an electrical resistance network

Abstract

An electrical resistance network for solving the Laplacian field equation has been used to determine the attached-flow incidence of thin slender wings with different forms of camber. This incidence was found by applying the wing boundary condition exactly at the wing's surface. The lift and induced drag have not been evaluated for the wings studied. Comparison of the stream function obtained from an experiment with that of a known theoretical solution has shown that there should be no difficulty in determining the loading of such wings at the attached-flow incidence. There appears to be no reason why this method could not be extended to provide a means of analysis of cambered wings with a given thickness distribution.