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Recent work on windmills, swimming and flying propulsion of animals, and high-altitude cruising of miniature aircraft has aroused great interest in airfoils operating in the Reynolds-number (Re) range well below one million. This paper presents an aerodynamic theory of the laminar separation to further our understanding of the aerodynamic-flow behavior at Re = 104–105, that is, at the lower end of this flight regime.
This research is supported by ONR Contract No. N00014-82-K-0315.
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Cheng, H.K., Lee, C.J. (1986). Laminar Separation Studied as an Airfoil Problem. In: Cebeci, T. (eds) Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows III. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4926-9_6
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