Timeline for Why do the outer parts of wings generate less lift?
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 21:57 | comment | added | Prodnegel | " Therefore, reducing lift at the tips and adding more lift at the root will create a lighter wing for a modest drag increase, resulting in an overall optimum for an almost triangular lift distribution. When compared to an elliptical wing planform, the total wing span of such an optimized wing is bigger for the same overall drag, but this wing will weigh less." | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | Well, this study is from NACA and proves that a nearly triangular lift distribution causes the lowest induced drag. Read here for more. | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 18:45 | history | edited | Prodnegel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 16:35 | history | edited | Prodnegel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 16:33 | comment | added | Prodnegel | @ayomeer I think this NASA study answers your question quite well. ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760012005.pdf | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 16:06 | comment | added | ayomeer | "...when the spanwise distribution of lift is elliptical" This is exactly the crux of my question. Why is this the case? | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 15:44 | history | edited | Prodnegel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2017 at 15:33 | history | answered | Prodnegel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |