naca


naca, a C++ code which takes the parameters of certain NACA airfoils and returns 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 MIT license

Languages:

naca is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

gnuplot_test, C++ codes which illustrate how a program can write data and command files so that gnuplot can create plots of the program results.

naca_test

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:


Last revised on 28 March 2020.