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For example, the NACA 2412 airfoil has a maximum camber of 2% located 40% (0.4 chords) from the leading edge with a maximum thickness of 12% of the chord. The NACA 0015 airfoil is symmetrical, the 00 indicating that it has no camber.
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.
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:
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
Aerofoil nomenclature showing chord line Chord line of a turbine aerofoil section. Chords on a swept-wing. In aeronautics, the chord is an imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil. The chord length is the distance between the trailing edge and the point where the chord intersects the leading edge.
In the figures to the right examples are given for several values of n. The black line is the boundary of the flow, while the darker blue lines are streamlines, and the lighter blue lines are equi-potential lines. Some interesting powers n are: [12] n = 1 / 2 : this corresponds with flow around a semi-infinite plate,
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TT: the usual two-digit maximum camber in percent of chord; Accordingly, the given example “77887” is nonsensical. You simply cannot have a an “8” in the middle position: it _must_ be either “0” or “1”. An 87%-of-chord thickness is also highly dubious: _none_ of the canonical NACA profiles (10 5-digit and 87 4-digit) go beyond 25%.