Joukowsky transform
- Date
- c. 1910 · confidence low
- Place
- Moscow, Russia
- Credited to
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A conformal map relating circles to airfoil shapes, devised by Nikolai Zhukovsky and historically used to understand the principles of wing design.
What it led to
- enabled the analytical calculation of lift for early airfoils
- laid mathematical foundations for modern aerodynamics
- was combined with the Kutta-Joukowski theorem to predict lift