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Flat plate airfoil polars for stall

Thread starter PaulPounds
Start date May 31, 2004

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May 31, 2004

PaulPounds

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Everyone knows about flat plate airfoils, but no one would ever use one, right? Well, I've got a very thin airfoil rotor operating at high AoA, so I reckon it's performance can't be far off a flat plate at and past stall.

Can anyone direct me to accurate polars of flat plate behaviour at stall AoA and beyond?

-Paul