naca


naca, an Octave code which takes the parameters of certain NACA airfoils and return the coordinates of a sequence of points that outline the wing shape.

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 an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

naca_test

bird_egg, an Octave code which evaluates some formulas for the shapes of bird eggs.

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 23 September 2022.