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Peter Kämpf
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If some parts of the airfoil create lift and others a downforce, the center of pressure can be outside of the airfoil's chord at low lift coefficients. This condition is fulfilled for reflex airfoils, airfoils with a deflected flap and rear loading airfoils, which have low camber in the front and high camber in the rear part. Supercritical airfoils meet this last condition.

Below you see the result from XFRL5 V6.0.5. I plotted the local center of pressure as a green line. It's elevation over the plane of the wing shows the amount of lift locally created, and the location in streamwise direction shows that it leaves the local chord when lift becomes low. Note that when moving out in spanwise direction the location jumps from far aft of the airfoil to far ahead when the local lift turns negative. At the point of no local lift you have a division by zero error, patched over here by a straight connection between the results from the single panels.

Location of the local center of pressure on a swept wing

Location of the local center of pressure on a swept wing (own work).

When angle of attack is increased, all additional lift has the Birnbaum distribution, so the local center of pressure moves towards the quarter-chord location.

Peter Kämpf
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