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Current interest in a variety of low Reynolds number applications has focused attention on the design and evaluation of efficient airfoil sections at chord Reynolds numbers from about 100,000 to about 1,000,000. These applications include remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) at high altitudes, sailplanes, ultra-light man-carrying/man powered aircraft, mini-RPVs at low altitudes and wind turbines/propellers. The purpose of this conference was to bring together those researchers who have been active in areas closely related to this subject. All of the papers presented are research type papers. Main topics are: Airfoil Design and Analysis, Computational Studies, Stability and Transition, Laminar Separation Bubble, Steady and Unsteady Wind Tunnel Experiments and Flight Experiments.
List of contents
XFOIL: An Analysis and Design System for Low Reynolds Number Airfoils.- Prediction of Aerodynamic Performance of Airfoils in Low Reynolds Number Flows.- A Fast Method for Computation of Airfoil Characteristics.- Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Design and Wind Tunnel Testing at Princeton University.- Study of Low-Reynolds Number Separated Flow Past the Wortmann FX 63-137 Airfoil.- An Interactive Boundary-Layer Stability-Transition Approach for Low-Reynolds Number Airfoils.- The Instability of Two-Dimensional Laminar Separation.- Bursting in Separating Flow and in Transition.- A Review of Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamic Research at The University of Glasgow.- Experimental Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Airfoils LA 5055 and DU 86-084/18 at Low Reynolds Numbers.- Performance Measurements of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers.- Correlation of Theory to Wind-Tunnel Data at Reynolds Numbers Below 500,000.- An Experimental Study of Low-Speed Single-Surface Airfoils with Faired Leading Edges.- A Computationally Efficient Modelling of Laminar Separation Bubbles.- A Comparison Between Boundary Layer Measurements in a Laminar Separation Bubble Flow and Linear Stability Theory Calculations.- Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wortmann FX63-137 Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers.- A Method to Determine the Performance of Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils Under Off-Design Unsteady Freestream Conditions.- An Unsteady Model of Animal Hovering.- Control of Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils: A Review.- The Low Frequency Oscillation in the Flow Over a NACA 0012 Airfoil with an "Iced" Leading Edge.- Detachment of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Varying Free-Stream Turbulence and Lower Reynolds Numbers.- Wind-Tunnel Investigations of Wings with Serrated Sharp Trailing Edges.- Low Reynolds Number AirfoilDesign for Subsonic Compressible Flow.- Computation of Viscous Unsteady Compressible Flow About Profiles.- Compressible Navier-Stokes Solutions Over Low Reynolds Number Airfoils.- Shock/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction in Low Reynolds Number Supercritical Flows.- Summary of Experimental Testing of a Transonic Low Reynolds Number Airfoil.- The Design of a Low Reynolds Number RPV.- Captive Carry Testing of Remotely Piloted Vehicles.- Flight Testing Navy Low Reynolds Number (LRN) Unmanned Aircraft.- Vortex Lock-On and Flow Control in Bluff Body Near-Wakes.- Wake Studies on Yawed, Stranded Cables.
