Sorry, I just grabbed that picture from google as an example. It is a cooled turbine blade defined by the outer black line. I choose this image since it details the typical "extreme" camber of certain turbine blades. I've attached a picture highlighting this along with the desired points being...
Yeah, I'm measuing a physical airfoil. I think you are right in that most cases tangent points would work fine, assuming a coordinate system aligned to the chord line. This won't work for an airfoil with lots of camber though. An example of a shape similar to what I am dealing with is shown in...
I've got X,Y data representing an airfoil and I need to determine the leading edge and trailing edge points for this data. The only method I see for this is to construct a MCL. I've done okay at this but the end points of the line cause difficultly. Given our measurement tools, point density...
I should clarify that the understanding of airfoil properties I mention is mainly just in the calculation realm.
This process (the determination of a MCL from arbitrary data) is not well documented and seems not common. I have a found a few journals but the implementation of the topics was not...
While I am an engineering intern at my company I would not consider this a student post. I am contracted to begin work as a software development engineer upon graduation. My job description will not change between now and then.
We deal with (X,Y) data because a coordinate measuring machine is...
Hi All,
New to the forum and hoping I might be able to get some assistance. I work for a manufacturing company and we have just started large scale production of engine turbine blades. To meet the needs of our customers we are working on developing our own inspection and report generation...
