Lifting-line Theory - Lift and Drag From Coefficients

Lift and Drag From Coefficients

The lift can be determined by integrating the circulation terms:

which can be reduced to:

where is the first term of the solution of the simulatanous equations shown above.

The induced drag can be determined from

or

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