Advanced airfoil design for general aviation propellers

Aerodynamic Design via Control Theory

“…Such an approach is used in a computer program written by the author for Grumman Aerospace. It allows the recovery of smooth profiles that generate flows containing shock waves, and it has been used to design improved blade sections for propellers (Taverna, 1983). A related method for three-dimensional design was devised by Garabedian and McFadden (1982).…”

Aerodynamic shape design and optimization

“…A three dimensional version of the SFC formulation remains to be developed. A similar concept derived from the boundary element integral method" gives a fully converged solution for an airfoil design on a -personal computer in[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] iterations.…”