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NREL's S823 Airfoil (s823-nr)

NREL's S823 Airfoil - NREL HAWT airfoil S823 root 21.0% Dia=2 to 10 m Re=4.0E+5 Clmax(S)=1.20 Clmax(R)=1.16 Restrained max lift coef


Airfoil s823-nr
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(s823-nr) NREL's S823 Airfoil
NREL HAWT airfoil S823 root 21.0% Dia=2 to 10 m Re=4.0E+5 Clmax(S)=1.20 Clmax(R)=1.16 Restrained max lift coef
Max thickness 21.2% at 24.3% chord.
Max camber 2.4% at 70.5% chord
Source NWTC National WInd Technology Center
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The dat file is in Selig format
NREL's S823 Airfoil
   x/c        y/c
1.000000   0.000000
0.996182   0.001021
0.985647   0.004487
0.969834   0.009935
0.949208   0.016186
0.923311   0.022860
0.892433   0.030245
0.857144   0.038305
0.818037   0.046896
0.775723   0.055810
0.730810   0.064793
0.683890   0.073566
0.635537   0.081835
0.586291   0.089312
0.536666   0.095725
0.487145   0.100825
0.438182   0.104394
0.390202   0.106236
0.343554   0.106115
0.298349   0.104071
0.255030   0.100219
0.213826   0.094667
0.175150   0.087661
0.139404   0.079378
0.106993   0.069983
0.078238   0.059647
0.053489   0.048562
0.032973   0.036935
0.017013   0.025059
0.005871   0.013252
0.001538   0.006021
0.000533   0.003322
0.000235   0.002160
0.000026   0.000734
0.000174  -0.001931
0.000800  -0.004837
0.002374  -0.009387
0.010193  -0.023971
0.021425  -0.041404
0.034330  -0.059382
0.049121  -0.076692
0.065425  -0.091707
0.084347  -0.102507
0.108058  -0.109780
0.136074  -0.114432
0.168058  -0.116517
0.203782  -0.116043
0.243045  -0.113061
0.285642  -0.107692
0.331343  -0.100136
0.379872  -0.090684
0.430894  -0.079712
0.483993  -0.067673
0.538656  -0.055088
0.594258  -0.042513
0.650057  -0.030520
0.705190  -0.019649
0.758682  -0.010377
0.809471  -0.003071
0.856439   0.002045
0.898460   0.004922
0.934449   0.005687
0.963294   0.004594
0.983900   0.002540
0.996032   0.000732
1.000000   0.000000
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