External Potential Flow Around Multiple Aerofoils

This chapter present a fats boundary integral equation method for numerical computing of uniform potential flow past multiple aerofoils. The presented fast multipole-based iterative solution procedure requires only $O(nm\ln n)$ operations where $m$ is the number of aerofoils and $n$ is the number of nodes in the discretization of each aerofoil’s boundary. We demonstrate the performance of our methods on several numerical examples.