controlSurfaceAirfoilType

complexType · extension complexBaseType · all

Airfoil contour of a control surface between its borders

The airfoil (<airfoilUID>) is placed at the spanwise position <eta> with its leading edge on the leading edge of the control surface. Its chord is given by the outer shape of the control surface; it can be rotated about the chord and about the normal of the chord surface of the control surface, and scaled in spanwise and thickness direction.

Like the contour of a border (contourReferenceType), it is a closed contour that describes the complete section of the control surface.

Attributes

NameTypeConstraintsUseDefaultDescription
@externalDataDirectoryxsd:stringoptionalDirectory of the external file the element was read from, as URI
@externalDataNodePathxsd:stringoptionalPath of the parent element in the merged dataset, at which the element was inserted from an external file
@externalFileNamexsd:stringoptionalName of the external file the element was read from

Child elements

NameTypeConstraintsOccurrenceHow often the element may appear at this place. The schema writes it as minOccurs and maxOccurs on the declaration.DefaultDescription
allThe children below may appear in any order. Each may appear at most once.
etaetaIsoLineType[1..1] requiredSpanwise position of the leading edge of the airfoil
airfoilUIDstringUIDBaseType[1..1] requiredAirfoil
rotXdoubleBaseType[1..1] requiredRotation about the axis from the leading to the trailing edge of the control surface; 90 places the airfoil perpendicular to the middle plane of the control surface [deg]
rotZdoubleBaseType[1..1] requiredRotation about the normal of the chord surface of the control surface, about the foremost point of the airfoil; 90 aligns the airfoil with the x-axis of the wing [deg]
scalYdoubleBaseType[1..1] requiredScaling in spanwise direction, not used for two-dimensional airfoils [-]
scalZdoubleBaseType[1..1] requiredScaling in thickness direction [-]

Used by

In a dataset · 9 paths

In the schema · 1 declaration

TypeName
controlSurfaceContoursTypeintermediateAirfoil