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MATLAB Project: Airfoil Generator

February 19, 2015

I'm taking a class in aerodynamics this semester, and I know we will be working a lot with airfoils. So for fun I decided to write a MATLAB GUI to display any NACA series airfoil. Currently it only works with the 4-series airfoils, but soon I will expand it to work with 5, 6, 7,  8 series airfoils as well.

The program takes inputs of the NACA airfoil number, desired chord length, angle of incidence (AOI), and the wing length. The program then plots each individual airfoil, and lofts the two together in an isometric view. The 'export airfoils' button doesn't work right now, but soon it will export XY coordinates for the airfoils to a text file, so they can be loaded into SolidWorks or another CAD program to make a 3-D model of the wing. 

Download the files to run the program here.

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