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1. A uniform rigid wing section of span 1 m and chord 0.

2 m is suspended in a wind-tunnel as
shown below. For the wind tunnel, static pressure and air specific heat ratio is given as
p = 40 kN/m and = 1.4, respectively. For
2
1 5 . 5 M C
L

per radian, and



L M
C C 25 . 0 , calculate the aileron reversal Mach number.







2. UsingExcelorMATLAB,plotafamilyofcurvesthatdepictstherelationshipoftheaileronelastic
efficiency,E,versusnormalizeddynamicpressure
D
q q q , for various values of
D R
q q R
and 1 0 q . You should make two plots on the following scales to reduce confusion:
a) Plot 1 R using axes 3 3 E ,
b) Plot 1 R usingaxes 3 3 E .
Hint:Donotcomputevaluesforthecaseswhere 1 . 1 1 R ; Excel does not handle these well.
For some cases you may want to plot symbols only and nicely sketch the lines that form the
curves.
Answer the following questions: Where does aileron reversal occur? If you had to design a
wing what R would you try to approach and why? What happens when
D R
q q ? How does
the efficiency change as q approaches q
R
? Why do you think this happens? What other
pertinent features can you extract from these plots? Explain how you came to these
conclusions.

K
1
=5.6KN/m K
2
=4KN/m
x
2
=0.7c

U
x
1
=0.1c

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