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Laminar Flow Rodney Bajnath, Beverly Beasley, Mike Cavanaugh AOE 4124 March 29, 2004 Introduction Why laminar flow? Less skin friction Lower drag Natural Laminar Flow NACA 6-Series Airfoils Developed by conformal transformations, 30 – 50% laminar flow Advantages: Low drag over small operating range, high Clmax Disadvantages: Poor stall characteristics, susceptible to roughness, high pitch moment, very thin near TE Drag bucket: pressure distributions cause transition to move forward suddenly at end of low-drag Cl range Minimum pressure at transition location Natural Laminar Flow NACA 6A-Se