Modification of Multhopp's lifting surface theory with a view to automatic computation
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Abstract
An approximate method for the calculation of the aerodynamic forces on a wing of arbitrary planform in a subsonic non-viscous-flow has been given. The presented method can be considered as a modification of Multhopp's well-known lifting-surface theory with the view on the application of digital oomputors. Numerical results ere given for a swept-baok wing and the circular wing. Extensive comparisons of these results- for the circular wing with exact results were already made in the first author's thesis (ref.4) some years ago.