Leading edge contamination and the saga of the bleeding slot by Mike Gaster (City)

Talk given by Prof Mike Gaster (City University, London) at Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London, 1 November 2017, as part of the ICL Aerodynamics seminar series.The talk discusses so-called laminar flow aircraft, the quest to find designs and devices that delay transition to turbulent flow on wings, with the objective of reducing drag..