naca

naca, a FORTRAN77 code which takes the parameters of certain NACA airfoils and return the coordinates of a sequence of points that outline the wing shape. The data can be displayed with gnuplot().

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

naca is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

naca_test

gnuplot, FORTRAN77 programs which illustrate how a program can write data and command files so that gnuplot can create plots of the program results.

Reference:

1. Eastman Jacobs, Kenneth Ward, Robert Pinkerton,
   The characteristics of 78 related airfoil sections from tests in the variable-density wind tunnel,
   NACA Report 460, 1933.

Source Code:

• naca.f, the source code.
• naca.sh, compiles the source code.