L. B. Gratzer, “Analysis of Transport Applications for High-Lift Schemes,” AGARD LS-43, 1971. This is a very good presentation of high lift system design within the context of the entire airplane design process.
A. M .O. Smith, “High Lift Aerodynamics (Wright Brothers Lecture),” AIAA Paper No. 74-939, August 1974. (also appeared in the Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 1975, pp. 501-530.) This is the best paper available on the ideas associated with high lift.
Garner, P.L., Meredith, P.T., and Stoner, R.C., “Areas for Future CFD Development as Illustrated by Transport Aircraft Applications,” AIAA Paper 91-1527, 1991.
G.W. Brune and J.H. McMasters, “Computational Aerodynamics Applied to High Lift Systems,” Chapter 10 of Applied Computational Aerodynamics, P. Henne, Ed. Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 125, AIAA, Washington, 1990.
Mark Drela, “Design and Optimization Method for Multi-Element Airfoils,” AIAA Paper 93-0969, Feb. 1993.
Christopher L. Rumsey and Susan X. Sing, “Prediction of high lift: review of present CFD capability,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 38, pp. 145-180, 2002. (note that articles in Progress in Aerospace Sciences are available for download through the Virginia Tech University Library if you search Addison and have a vt.edu address)
C.P. van Dam, “The aerodynamic design of multi-element high-lift systems for transport airplanes,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 38, pp. 101-144, 2002. (note that articles in Progress in Aerospace Sciences are available for download through the Virginia Tech University Library if you search Addison and have a vt.edu address)
Peter K.C. Rudolph, “High-Lift Systems on Commercial Subsonic Airliners,” NASA CR 4746, Sept. 1996.
C.P. van Dam, J.C. Vander Kam, and J.K. Paris, “Design-Oriented High-Lift Methodology for General Aviation and Civil Transport Aircraft,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 6, November-December 2001, pp. 12076-1084.
B. N. Nield, “An overview of the Boeing 777 high lift aerodynamic design,” Aeronautical Journal, Nov. 1995. pp. 361-371.
G.K. Korbacher, “Aerodynamics of Powered High-Lift Systems,” Ann. Rev. of Fluid Mech., 1974.
S.F. Hoerner and H.V. Borst, Fluid Dynamic Lift, 1975.
B.W. McCormick, Jr., Aerodynamics of V/STOL Flight, Dover, 1999.
Shevelle, Fundamentals of Flight, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1989.
John H. McMasters and M.D. Mack, “High Reynolds Number Testing in Support of Transonic Airplane Development (Invited Paper),” AIAA Paper 92-3982, July 1992.
D.G. Mabry, “Design features which influence flow separations on aircraft,” Aeronautical Journal, Dec. 1988, pp. 409-415.
Englar, Robert J., Smith, Marilyn J., Kelley, Sean M., Rover, Richard C., III, “Development of circulation control technology for application to advanced subsonic transport aircraft,” AIAA Paper 93-0644.
John K. Wimpress and Conrad F. Newberry, The YC-14 STOL Prototype: Its Design, Development, and Flight Test, AIAA Case Study, AIAA, Reston, 1998.
A discussion of high lift aerodynamics can also be found in the Configuration Aerodynamics Class Notes, Aerodynamics of high lift devices/powered lift updated April 2, 2003 (a pdf file)
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