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Design of High-Lift Airfoils for Low Aspect Ratio Wings with Endplates Ashok Gopalarathnam* and Michael S. Seligt Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Uniersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 68 and Frank Hsut Adanced Engineering Center Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan 48 Abstract High-lift multi-element airfoils for low-aspect ratio wings with endplates find application in race car rear wings used to generate high aerodynamic down force. Airfoils for such applications must not only generate maximum lift (to maximize the down force) but also must satisfy seeral geometric constraints imposed by the race rules. Induced effects arising as a result of the low aspect ratio determine the operating angle of attack at which the lift is to be maximized. This paper presents some of the challenges inoled in designing such airfoils and briefly describes the design methodology adopted in the current work. A parametric study using a baseline two-element airfoil is then presented to illustrate some of the unusual results obtained as a consequence of satisfying the geometric constraints while maximizing the wing down force. Nomenclature c =chord c f = flap-element chord Cm = main-element chord Ct = total chord, Cm + CJ C =airfoil lift coefficient, llpv w CL =wing lift coefficient, Lh,pV:;,w g = ratio of the gap to the total chord h = height of the constraint box l = local "D" lift per unit span L = wing lift per unit span V = local elocity ector at an airfoil section Copyright 997 by Ashok Gopalarathnam, Michael S. Selig and Frank Hsu. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. with permission. *Graduate Research Assistant, 36 Talbot Laboratory. Student Member AIAA.. t Assistant Professor, 36 Talbot Laboratory. Senior Member AIAA. :j:technical Specialist, MD 7, AEC 457, Rotunda Drie. V = freestream elocity ector w = induced downwash elocity w = width of the constraint box a = angle of attack (angle between V and the x-axis) ai = induced angle of attack (ai = -a) b f = flap deflection = angle of the airfoil in the box p = density of air Introduction Most airfoils for practical aircraft applications are typically designed to achiee not only a desired aerodynamic performance but also satisfy certain geometric constraints. Examples are constraints on maximum thickness (for structural considerations), enclosed area (for fuel olume considerations) and trailing-edge geometry (for manufacturing considerations). This paper describes a design methodology used in the design of two-element airfoils subject to some rather unusual constraints on the geometry. The objectie was to design high-lift airfoils for race car rear wings to maximize the down force. As is well known, increasing the aerodynamic down force increases the maximum lateral acceleration capability of the race car, allowing increases in cornering speeds. Geometric constraints on the airfoil imposed by the race rules, howeer, make this design problem challenging. The current approach has been to use a multipoint inerse design code for rapid and interactie design of two-element airfoils with desired iniscid elocity distributions and then analyze candidate designs using more computationally intensie iscous codes, in particular, MSES, 3 FUND 4 and NSUD. 5 The results from the iscous codes were then used to proide feedback to the designer to further refine the performance of the airfoils. A MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) was deeloped for interactiely executing the arious elements of the design code and for plotting the resulting airfoil along with the constraints on the geometry AIAA Paper 97-3 Presented at the AIAA 5th Applied Aerodynamics Conference June 3-5, 997, Atlanta, GA

Box constraint - L---: Box width "w" Fig. Typical geometric constraints on indy car rear wings. and the elocity distributions. The interface also allows graphical editing of the geometric parameters such as flap position, size, angle, etc. Such an interactie design tool was key to performing trade studies to assess the relatie importance of the different design ariables in maximizing the lift while satisfying the constraints. This paper gies a brief description of typical geometric constraints imposed by the race rules, that is, the resulting restrictions that they impose on the design. The induced flow due the low aspect ratio wings is then discussed and followed by a brief description of the method used in the current work to determine the operating angle of attack of the airfoil. The next section compares the design philosophies commonly used in the design of high-lift multi-element airfoils and demonstrates why they may not be applicable when there are seere constraints on the geometry, such as those laid down by the race car rules. Finally, a three-part parametric study has been used to illustrate the design process, the challenges imposed on the design by the constraints and the rather unusual results obtained as a result of designing for high-lift while satisfying the geometric constraints. The parametric study presents results from both iscous and iniscid computations. It should be noted that in this paper, except in Fig., the airfoils will be shown "upside down," that is, flipped with respect to their orientation on the race car. Also, the airfoils will be referred to as haing "high lift" rather than "high down force." The Constraints on the Geometry This section describes the constraints imposed on the rear wing geometry by the race rules. Typically, the rules specify that the geometry of the airfoil be constrained to a rectangular box referred to in this paper as the "constraint box" of specified dimensions. 6 Also specified are the maximum number of elements, the maximum span of the wing and the maximum dimensions of the endplates. The rules further restrict the bottom edge of the box to be parallel!o the ground, making _the freest ream elocity ector V parallel to the bottom edge of the box (see Fig. ). Figure shows a two-element airfoil in a typical indy car rear wing box constraint. Table : Dimensions of the wing and endplates as used in the current study. ~w Wing span = 43 in. Box height h = 5 in. Box width w = in. Box hu: =.5 Wing aspect ratio =.5 Endplate chord = in. Endplate height = 8 in. Effectie wing aspect ratio =.57 Fig. Finite wing corrections. It is to be noted, howeer, that the geometric constraints usually ary from year to year. For the present study, two-element airfoils hae been considered, and a box size hjw ratio of.5 has been assumed, along with the wing and constraint box dimensions listed in Table. The endplate size has been assumed to be identical to that of the constraint box. Since the maximum span as limited by the race rules results in a ery low aspect ratio wing, the downwash induced by the trailing ortex system is quite high and increases with increasing wing lift. As demonstrated in Fig., the low aspect ratio of the wing, coupled with the restriction that the bottom edge of the box must be parallel to the ground, results in a highly negatie operating angle of attack for the airfoil. Consequently, the design problem becomes one of maximizing the lift at a negatie angle of attack. While there is no direct contribution to the lift from the endplates, the endplates result in an effectie increase in the aspect ratio, and hence a less negatie operating angle of attack. Thus, they play an "indirect" role in increasing the maximum lift. In the current work, the effect of endplates has been accounted for by increasing the geometric aspect ratio of the wing based a simple 3- D model of a short aspect wing with endplates modeled according to Ref. 7. Table lists the effectie aspect ratio used in the present study. L

Determination of Operating Condition The induced downwash corresponding to any gien alue of wing lift can be computed using the finite-wing theory for high-lift, low aspect-ratio wings documented in Ref. 8. This theory assumes an elliptic lift distribution, but differs from the conentional lifting-line theory for elliptically loaded wings in that the trailing ortex wake is assumed to trail not in the direction of the freest ream elocity ector V =, but in the direction of the local elocity ector V. The wake is therefore deflected down from the horizontal by an angle equal to the induced downwash angle a;. Figure illustrates the effect of the induced downwash on the operating angle of attack of the airfoil. Consider the two-element airfoil in the constraint box in Fig.. Since the wing is generating positie lift, there is an induced downwash w that results in the local elocity ector V as shown in the figure. As can be seen from the figure, the assumption that the trailing ortex wake is at an angle a; to the freestream, results in the downwash elocity ector w being tilted at an angle a; to the ertical. As a consequence, the local elocity ector V has a smaller magnitude than that of the freestream elocity ector V = Also seen in Fig. is that the angle of attack a relatie to the x-axis is exactly equal to the induced angle a;, but with the sign reersed. Figure 3 shows the ariation of airfoil Ct and wing C L corresponding to arious alues of the induced downwash angle a;, as a result of satisfying the finite-wing theory. The airfoil Ct is less than the wing C L not only because the wing lift per unit span L is smaller than the local lift per unit span l, but also because the local elocity ector V is smaller in magnitude than the freestream elocity V Figure 4 shows the ariation of the wing lift coefficient C L with the airfoil lift coefficient C, obtained as a result of satisfying the finite-wing theory. To illustrate the determination of the operating angle of attack for any airfoil in the constraint box, consider the two-element airfoil of Fig.. This airfoil can be analyzed to obtain the Ct s. a ariation, where a is defined relatie to the x-axis (the top edge of the box. in this case). The Ct s. a cures for this airfoil as obtained from ) an iniscid analysis using.mcarf, a panel method, and ) a iscous analysis using FUND, a Naier-Stokes code, are plotted in Fig. 5, along with the airfoil C s. a; obtained as a result of satisfying the finite-wing theory. The operating angles of attack, as shown in the figure, are the intersections of the cures from analysis and finite-wing theory. As seen in Fig. 5, the operating condition for iniscid flow is different from that for iscous flow..5 3r-----~------~------~----~...J (.).5 c.5.5 - Effectie wing aspect ratio =.57 Airfoil C Wing CL -5 - -5 - <lj (deg) Fig. 3 Variation of airfoil cl and wing c L with induced downwash angle..5 3.---~--~----~--~--~---. d ~.5 ;:.5 Effectie wing aspect ratio =.57 ~--~--~----~--~--~--~.5.5 airfoil C Fig. 4 Variation of wing CL with airfoil C.5 3 Design Methodology The design methodology in the current work has been to use a multipoint inerse design code for multi-element airfoils coupled with a custom MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) for rapid and interactie design of two-element airfoils with desired iniscid elocit distributions. Candidate designs are then analyzed ~sing more computationally intensie iscous codes, in particular, MSES, 3 FUND 4 and NSUD. 5 The results from the iscous codes were then used to proide feedback to further refine the performance of the airfoils. 3

3.5 c.y :g.5 "(ii Effectie wing aspect ratio =.57, lniscid operating point Viscous operating point C s. a; from Fig. 3.5 lniscid C s. a (MCARF) --- Viscous C s. a (FUND) - -5 - -5 (l =- <lj (deg) Fig. 5 Illustration of the method used to determine the operating angle of attack. The inerse design method of Ref. for multi-element airfoils uses a hybrid approach by coupling an isolatedairfoil multipoint design code (PROFOIL 9 ) to generate each element of the multi-element airfoil and a twodimensional panel method (MCARF ) to analyze the multi-element airfoil. The method makes use of the obseration that changes in the elocity distribution oer the elements in isolation result in remarkably similar changes in the elocity distributions oer the corresponding elements of the multi-element airfoil. Newton iteration is used to adjust the elocity distributions oer the airfoils in isolation to obtain desired multi-element elocity distributions. Figure 6 shows an oeriew of the inerse design method, more details of which are documented in Ref.. A custom MATLAB-based GUI was deeloped to enable the designer to interactiely execute the arious elements of the design code and subsequently plot the resulting airfoil geometries and the corresponding elocity distributions along with the geometric constraints. While the multi-element inerse method has both PRO FOIL and MCARF embedded in it, the GUI proided the designer with additional capability of executing either PROFOIL to generatemodify any of the two elements of the airfoil, or MCARF to obtain a panelmethod solution for the two-element airfoil. In addition. the GUI has seeral features that allow the designer to edit the geometry of the multi-element airfoil using the cursor, enabling seeral parametric studies to be performed in a rapid and interactie manner. All of the two-element airfoils used in the parametric studies that follow were generated using this GUI. Ste Use initial alues of!l.,e,m & Ll,E,f to generate airfoils for the elements using PROFOIL X Main airfoil X airfoil Ste Scale and position airfoils according to specified geometry c==:---> ~ condition condition Compare!l. V ME,m with specification m and!l. V ME.t with specification, Step 5 Airfoil design is complete Use Newton iteration to change!l.,e m &!l.,e f Ste 6 Use new alues of.. V E,m &!l. V E.t to generate new airfoils for the elements using PROFOIL. Go to Step Fig. 6 An oeriew of the inerse design method for multi-element airfoils. 4

While the GUI allowed rapid design of seeral candidate two-element airfoils with desired iniscid elocity distributions subject to geometric constraints, more computationally intensie codes such as MSES, 3 FUND 4 and NSUD 5 were used to obtain the iscous behaior of these airfoils. In this paper, only the results from FU::"JD are presented. High Lift Design Philosophy This section describes briefly the design philosophies used in conentional high-lift airfoil design and demonstrates that such philosophies are not effectie when the airfoil is required to maximize the lift, while satisfying the box constraint. A new design philosophy is then proposed for the design of high-lift airfoils for the current application. Conentional high-lift single and multi-element airfoils, which do not hae any restriction on the operating angle of attack, are typically designed so that the elocity distributions on the upper surface of each element has the highest possible rooftop elocity oer the forward portion, followed by a Stratford pressure recoery to keep the turbulent boundary layer close to separation, with high aft-loading at the trailing-edge. 3 Airfoils designed using such a philosophy do not perform well on indy car rear wings that hae to maximize the lift while operating at a highly negatie angle of attack. To demonstrate this point, a two-element airfoil was designed to hae a Ct,max of approximately 4.5. Figure 7a shows this two-element airfoil and the iniscid elocity distribution at the high-lift condition corresponding to a C of 4.5. Figure 7b demonstrates that when this airfoil is constrained to operate within the box, the cl drops to.59 owing to the negatie operating angle of attack. Therefore, a new high-lift design philosophy has been deeloped for the current application. The philosophy is to hae as high a suction peak as possible at the leading edge of the main element upper surface, and as high an aft-loading as possible at the trailing edge while still satisfying the geometric constraints. The flap is used to load the trailing edge of the main element. Figure 8 shows a two-element airfoil designed with such a philosophy and the iniscid elocity distribution corresponding at the operating condition. The iniscid C for this airfoil is approximately. while satisfying the box constraints. Parametric Study In this section, a three-part parametric study is presented to illustrate some of the unusual results obtained as a consequence of satisfying the geometric constraints. The two-element airfoil shown with the constraint box 5 (a) 3.5.5.5 (b) c, =.59 Fig. 7 Airfoil designed for high-lift (a) at high-lift condition without box constraint (b) operating with box constraint.

.5.5.5 Fig. 8 Airfoil designed to produce high-lift while satisfying box constraint. E Fig. 9 Two-element airfoil used as the baseline for the parametric study. in Fig. 9 is used as the baseline airfoil for the study. The first part of the parametric study focuses on the effect of the angle of the airfoil in the box, the second part on the effect of the flap-to-main chord ratio c J Cm and the third part on the gap g between the main and the flap elements as a ratio of the sum of the total chord Ct. In all three parts, results from both iniscid and iscous analyses are presented. Iniscid computations were performed using the GUI to execute the panel method MCARF. The execution time was less than 5 seconds to analyze an airfoil oer a range of angles of attack. The iscous computations \ere performed using FUND, a two-dimensional unstructured Naier-Stokes code. 4 All the airfoils in the parametric study were analyzed at a Reynolds number (based on the box width w) of.4 x 6 and a Mach number of., which are the design conditions for the rear-wing airfoils. Figure -4. Q) :::::l. ~. Q)... Cl Q) -(ij >.9 c :::::l " "iii Q) a: -Cl...J - - " () Q).8.s >-.c.7 -g -~ (ij Baseline airfoil analyzed using FU.6 E... a= - deg Re =.4 million.5 s M= <S -.4 3 4 5 Iteration number Fig. Residual plot and conergence of the normalized q. shows the conergence of the airfoil C and residual after 5 iterations (in this case, for the baseline airfoil at an angle of attack of - deg relatie to the x-axis). For a typical case, a three-leel multi-grid analysis was performed, with approximately 5, nodes for leel, approximately, nodes for leel, and approximately, nodes for leel 3. Typical run times for 5 iterations were approximately 4 min on a Cray C9 for a solution at a single angle of attack. Effect of the Angle of the Airfoil in the Box In this part of the study, the gap ( non-dimensionalized by the sum of the chord of the main and flap elements) and the flap-to-main chord ratio hae been maintained constant. The angle of the airfoil in the box as defined by the angle between the chord line of the main element and the x-axis has been aried to study its effect on the wing C L. In all cases, the two-element airfoils were scaled to the largest chord while satisfying the box constraint at the specified alue of r. Figures lla-c show the baseline airfoil haing =. deg, two airfoils resulting from = -4.8 and 5.4 deg, and the corresponding elocity distributions. Figure shows the ariation of the wing C L with from both iscous and iniscid computations at their respectie operating conditions. As seen from the figure, while there is negligible change in the wing CL with increasing alues of r aboe the baseline, there is a sharp decrease in the CL for alues of r less than the baseline. The reason for this behaior can be deduced by examining the ariation of the airfoil scale factor (factor by which the airfoil has been scaled down from the baseline case) and 6

.5 (a) (c).5 Airfoil B (Baseline) y =. deg Airfoil C y = 5.4 deg Fig. The airfoils and iniscid elocity distributions resulting from (a) = -4.8 deg, (b) =. deg and (c) = 5.4 deg. the operating angle of attack with. These ariations are shown in Figs. 3a and b. For alues of greater than that of the baseline, the scale factor of the airfoils decreases rapidly. This decrease, howeer, is nearly offset by increasing alues of the operating angle of attack, resulting in a nearly constant lift for alues of greater than that of the baseline. On the other hand, for alues of less than that of the baseline, both the operating angle of attack and the scale factor decrease, resulting in the sharp decrease in the wing lift. Another remarkable result of this parametric study is that the trends in ariation in wing C L with for both the iniscid and iscous computations are almost identical. The reason for the similarity in the trends is that the effect of is drien almost entirely by the shape of the constraint box. The similarity in the trends demonstrate the usefulness of selecting "promising" candidate airfoil sections using the rapid, interactie iniscid design method before performing highly intensie iscous analyses to select the "best" candidates. Effect of the Flap-to-Main Chord Ratio For the second part of the study, the angle ~~ of the airfoil in the box, the total chord ( Ct = Cm + c ) and gap ( non-dimensionalized by Ct) hae been maintained constant. and the flap-to-main chord ratio c I Cm has been aried. In each case, the trailing edge of the flap was fixed at the bottom-right corner of the box, and the flap angle b relatie to the main element chord was aried until the specified gap was obtained...8 lniscid results (MCARF) --- Viscous results (FUND)...I o-- -o-. (.) A B c g'.6 -~.4 A. -5 - -5 5 y (deg) Fig. Effect of on wing C L. Figures 4a-c show the baseline airfoil haing ctfem =.3, two airfoils with clcm alues of.5 and.35, and the corresponding wlocity distributions. The ariation in the wing C L from both iscous and iniscid computations with c I Cm is shown in Fig. 5. Figure 6 shows the ariation of b with the flap-to-main chord ratio. It is seen that the im iscid computations show a 7

(a).95.9 t5.m (J).85 (ij (.) (,).8.75.7L---~----~----~----~----~ -5 - -5 5 y (deg) Fig. 3 Variation of (a) scale factor and (b) operating a with f. (b) ~ - ::. i::s -5 r-----.-------.---c-""'""- jf B C) -5.!: ~ (J) a. - lniscid results (MCARF) Viscous results (FUND) -5L--~--~-~-~~~~ - 5 - -5 5 y (deg) c.5 (a).5 (b) (c).5 Airfoil A c cm =.5 Airfoil B (Baseline) c em=.3 Airfoil C c em=.35 Fig. 4 The airfoils and iniscid elocity distributions resulting from (a) CJICm =.5, (b) cjicm =.3 and (c) CJ I em =.35. monotonically increasing trend for the wing C L with decreasing c f I em. The reason for this behaior can be understood by obsering that, in this study, the flap angle OJ increases with decreasing alues of cjiem. The iniscid analyses are driing the design to a configuration where the two-element airfoil nearly "crawls" along the top and right-hand edges of the constraint box. For ery high alues of b f, howeer, the flow begins to separate. resulting in an optimum alue of c f I Cm below which the wing C L decreases because of separation resulting from the high flap deflections. This study demonstrates that while the iniscid design tool is good for rapidly generating candidate airfoils, there is clearly a need for iscous analysis codes to select design parameters that maximize the lift. Effect of the Gap For this part of the study, the angle of the airfoil in the box and flap-to-main chord ratio cjicm hae been maintained constant. The ratio gap-to-total-chord g has been altered. In each case, the trailing edge of the flap was fi..xed at the bottom-right corner of the constraint box, and the flap angle was aried until the specified 8

..8... o-- -O-- (.) B C ~.6 a' -~ A.4. lniscid results (MCARF) Viscous results (FUND) 65 6 55 5 of 45 4 35 3 A B 5..5.3.35.4.45 Ct em Fig. 6 Variation of 8 f with flap-to-main chord ratio. L---~----~----~----~--~..5.3.35.4.45 Fig. 5 Effect of ctfc.n on wing CL..5 (a).5.5 Airfoil A gap=3% Airfoil B gap=5% Airfoil C (Baseline) gap= % Fig. 7 The airfoils resulting from (a) gap= 3%, (b) gap= 5% and (c) gap= % of the gap of the baseline airfoil. gap was obtained. Figure 7a-c shows the baseline airfoil haing g =.., and two airfoils with gap alues of 5% and 3% of the gap of the baseline airfoil. The ariation in the wing C L with gap from both iniscid and iscous computations is shown in Fig. 8. As can be expected. the iniscid wing C L increases with decreasing gap alues. \Vhen the gap becomes ery small. howeer, iscous effects such as confluent boundary layers and wakes tend to reduce the lift generated, resulting in a alue of gap below which there is a decrease in the wing CL. This study again emphasizes the importance of performing 9

. r---...----.------.------, A B ---< c -.8...- B --- --- ---<...J o- c () C) c: -~.6.4. A lniscid results (MCARF) --- Viscous results (FUND) L---~--~--~--~ 4 6 8 gap gap of baseline (%) Fig. 8 Effect of gap on wing CL. iscous computations in designing two-element airfoils for high-lift. Conclusions The paper has dealt with issues inoled in designing high lift airfoils for race car applications. The seere constraints on the geometry of the airfoil imposed by the race rules coupled with the low aspect ratio wing present some unusual design challenges for the airfoil. As demonstrated in the paper, the geometric constraints result in the airfoil haing to produce high-lift while operating at a highly negatie angle of attack. The conentional approach to designing for high lift without an angle of attack constraint, that is, not subject to a box constraint. has little bearing on the current approach. A methodology has been deeloped for designing such airfoils. The method uses a graphical user interface to drie an inerse airfoil design method for designing multi-element airfoils to achiee a desired iniscid behaior. This interface allows for rapid, interactie design of seeral candidate airfoils that satisfy the geometric constraints. Computationally intensie iscous methods are then used to analyze the iscous performance of candidate airfoils. A three-part parametric study has been presented, which examines the effect of the angle of the airfoil in.the box. the flap-to-main chord ratio and the gap on the wing lift. Results from both iniscid and iscous computations are presented. The parametric study shows some of the unusual results obtained as a result of satis- fying the geometric constraints. In addition, the study demonstrates the effectieness of using rapid iniscid inerse design tools to select candidate airfoils, which can then be analyzed using more computationally intensie iscous codes to select the "best" airfoil. Acknowledgments The support of the Ford Motor Company is gratefully acknowledged. Also, Dimitri :\Iariplis (Scientic Simulations) and Chun-Keet Song (Uniersity of Illinois) are thanked for their efforts in running the N aier-stokes code NSUD, the results of which were not presented in this paper yet neertheless supported the conclusions of this work. References Katz, J., Race Car Aerodynamics, Robert Bentley Publishers, Cambridge, MA, 995. Gopalarathnam, A. and Selig, M.S., "A Multipoint Inerse r-.iethod for Multi-Element Airfoil Design," AIAA Paper 96-396, June 996 3 Drela, :\., "Design and Optimization Method for Multi-Element Airfoils," AIAA Paper 93-969, Feb. 993. 4 Anderson, \V.K., and Bonhaus, D.L., "Naier-Stokes Computations and Experimental Comparisons for Multielement Airfoil Configurations," AIAA Paper 93-645, Jan. 993 5 Valarezo, W.O. and Mariplis, D.J., "Naier-Stokes Applications to High-Lift Airfoil Analysis," AIAA Paper 93-3534, Aug. 993. 6 Anonymous, 997 CART Rule Book, Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc., Troy, MI, 997. 7 Schlichting, H. and Truckenbrodt, E., "Aerodynamics of the Airplane," McGraw-Hill International Book Company, '\ew York, 979. 8 McCormick, B.W., Jr., "Aerodynamics of VSTOL Flight," Academic Press, New York, 967. 9 Selig, :\I.S. and l\iaughmer, :\I.D., "A Multi-Point Inerse Airfoil Design Method Based on Conformal r-.iapping," AIAA Journal, Vol. 3, No. 5, 99, pp. 6-7. Morgan, H.L., Jr., "A Computer Program for the Analysis of Multi-Element Airfoils in Two-Dimensional, Subsonic, Viscous Flow," NASA SP-347, March 975. nsmith. A.M.O., "High-Lift Aerodynamics," Journal of Aircraft, Vol., No. 9, 975, pp. 5-53. Liebeck. R.. ''Subsonic Airfoil Design," in Applied Computational Aerodynamics. P.A. Henne (Ed.), Vol. 5, AIAA, Washington. DC, 99, pp. 33-65. 3 Selig, :\LS. and Guglielmo, J.J., "High-Lift Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Design," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 34. ~o., 997, pp. 7-79.