Airfoil

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Airfoil is any structure, such as wing, which provide aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of
air. Also a surface designed to obtain a useful reaction from air passing over it.
An airfoil is a structure designed to obtain reaction upon its surface from the the air through which it moves ir
that moves past such a structure.

PARTS OF AN AIRFOIL Leading Edge

: Trailing Edge
part of the airfoil meeting the airflow first

part of the airflow where the arirflow over the upper surface
rejoining the lower surface meeting.
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Chord line
imaginary straight line draww through t he airfoil from the leading
edge to the trailing edge.
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Camber
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Relative Wind characteristics curve of its upper and lower surface. The distance
direction of the airflow with respect to the wing from this chord line to the upper and lower surfaces of the wing
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Mean Camber Line denotes the magnitude of the upper and lower camber t any point.
Distance of the mean line from the chord line
a line that is drawn midway between the lower camber of an airfoil.
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TYPES OF AIRFOIL
Unsymmetrical
:an airfoil in which the upper and lower camber has a different shape. The
upper camber is more pronounce, while lower camber is comparatively flat.
This causes the velocity of the airfoil immediately above the wing to be
much higher than that below the wing
Symmetrical
:an airfoil in which the airfoil has the same shape in both sides of its center
line. The center of pressure of a symmetrical airfoil has a very small change
in the location of its center of pressure as its angle of attacks changes.
Inverted
:where. Some points of the lower camber reach to the upper portion odd the
chord line. Mostly used in the propeller and rotorcraft

Pressure of distribution
From experiments conducted on the wind tunnel models abd on full size airplanes, it has
been determined that as air flows along the surface of a wing at different angles of
attack (AOA), there are regions along the surface where the pressure is negative, or less
than atmospheric, and regions where the pressure is positive, or greater atmospheric.
The average of the pressure variation for any given AOA is referred to as the Center of
Pressure (CP). Aerodynamic force acts through this CP. At high angles of
attack, the CP moves forward, while at low the angle of attack the CP moves aft. In the
design of wing structure, this CP travel is very important, since it affects position of the
air loads imposed on the wing structure both low and high AOA conditions
Aerodynamic forces are resultant of your lift vector and drag vector