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Four- and five-digit series airfoils can be modified with a two-digit code preceded by a hyphen in the following sequence: One digit describing the roundness of the leading edge, with 0 being sharp, 6 being the same as the original airfoil, and larger values indicating a more rounded leading edge.
English: Potential-flow streamlines around a NACA 0012 airfoil at 11° angle of attack, with upper and lower streamtubes identified. Computed using the Wolfram Demonstrations Project Code Potential Flow over a NACA Four-Digit Airfoil by Richard L. Fearn and beautified in Adobe Illustrator CS3.
English: Selected airfoils in nature and various vehicles, with their approximate chord length indicated. Sources for the shapes of the airfoils: Low-speed ULM wing: drawn over own photo of low-cost, low-speed ultralight; Propeller blade: drawn over own photo of a sliced WW2-era bomber propeller
For example, an airfoil of the NACA 4-digit series such as the NACA 2415 (to be read as 2 – 4 – 15) describes an airfoil with a camber of 0.02 chord located at 0.40 chord, with 0.15 chord of maximum thickness. Finally, important concepts used to describe the airfoil's behaviour when moving through a fluid are:
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Further development resulted in two patents and a family of airfoils known as the KF airfoil and KFm airfoils (for Kline–Fogleman modified). The two patents, US Patent # 3,706,430 and US Patent # 4,046,338, refer to the introduction of a step on either the bottom (KFm1) or the top (KFm2) of an airfoil , or on both the top and bottom (KFm4).