Research Article
CFD Prediction of Airfoil Drag in Viscous Flow Using the Entropy Generation Method
Table 2
Comparison of drag coefficients from various methods (NACA0012 airfoil,
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| Angle-of-attack | | Drag from experiment | Drag from surface integration | Drag from wake integration | Drag from entropy generation | | | | |
| | 1.35 | 80.0 | 94.2 | 95.3 | 93.4 | 92.4 | 92.1 | 89.1 | | 1.53 | 90.0 | 112.7 | 110.5 | 109.2 | 107.6 | 107.1 | 101.0 | | 2.23 | 120.0 | 177.8 | 166.3 | 164.5 | 163.0 | 162.4 | 147.2 | | 4.15 | 190.0 | 346.3 | 312.2 | 311.5 | 310.3 | 309.6 | 273.9 |
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