Introduction to Requests and Airfoils
Explore scraping airfoil coordinate data from the UIUC database using Python's Requests library. Learn to clean and organize this data effectively and plot airfoil shapes with Matplotlib, enhancing your understanding of aerodynamic modeling.
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Airfoils
Airfoils are 2D cross-sections of wings, and they are primarily used to perform first-order modeling of lift and drag at different speeds and angles of attack. This image from RC modelers shows the anatomy of an airfoil:
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