Aerofoil graph interpolat​ion/extrap​olation

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I have a bunch of data for a NACA 63-412 aerofoil which I want to use in my software. I have two data sets, one for reynolds number 400000 and one for 5000000. I need to interpolate/extrapolate the data so that I can calculate with other reynolds numbers. The furthest I have gotten now is this, I have drawn two lines from this data and now I need to connect those into i suppose a surface but really wouldn't know how? any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cd1 = [0.0088
0.0089
0.0089
0.009
0.009
0.009
0.009
0.009
0.0091
0.0091
0.0092
0.0093
0.0094
0.0096
0.0098
0.0101
0.0106
0.0116
0.0133];
Cl1= [-0.0053
0.0523
0.1096
0.1675
0.2248
0.2823
0.3392
0.3952
0.452
0.5089
0.5647
0.6206
0.6767
0.7321
0.7858
0.836
0.885
0.928
0.9606];
RE1= [400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000
400000];
Cd2 = [0.008
0.008
0.008
0.0081
0.0081
0.0081
0.0081
0.0082
0.0082
0.0083
0.0084
0.0085
0.0087
0.0089
0.0093
0.0101
0.0112
0.0127
0.0141];
Cl2 = [-0.0048
0.053
0.1108
0.1689
0.2267
0.2837
0.3406
0.3982
0.455
0.5117
0.5687
0.6249
0.681
0.7356
0.7879
0.8352
0.8793
0.9172
0.9541];
RE2 = [500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000
500000];
figure(1)
hold on
plot3(Cl1,Cd1,RE1);
plot3(Cl2,Cd2,RE2);
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Eiso MOuwen
Eiso MOuwen on 11 Jan 2021
To be honest, I think you are all generous champs who give out their presious time for free to help a matlab learning 15 year old. I really think you guys are the all time best!
Mathieu NOE
Mathieu NOE on 12 Jan 2021
thanks for the nice comment even though I probably deserve only 1% of it, the rest goes to John

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John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 11 Jan 2021
Edited: John D'Errico on 11 Jan 2021
You lack sufficient information to construct a meaningful surface, since you have only 2 pieces of information in terms of Reynolds number.
First, plot what you have. A 3-d plot is effectively useless here, and makes it far more difficult to understand what you do have.
plot(Cl1,Cd1,'-or',Cl2,Cd2,'-*b')
legend('RE 400K','RE 500K')
xlabel 'Cl'
ylabel 'Cd'
So we see two curves that are not terribly similar in shape. There is a bit of noise seen. And the abscissa for these two curves are not the same, so you could not just use a tool like interp2 to interpolate. Extrapolating those curves, or for Reynold's numbers that fall (significantly) outside the interval [4e5,5e5] would seem to be a foolish (risky) task, due to the high amount of curvature of the respective curves, and due to the noise in the data.
If you merely wish to predict a point for some other Reynolds number however, you could simply use a spline interpolant, a linear interpolant, or perhaps a smoothing spline for each curve. Then, since you have only two distinct Reynolds numbers and thus only two distinct curves, just use linear interpolation between the two. For example, if you have the curve fitting toolbox, I might do this:
CF1 = fit(Cl1,Cd1,'smoothingspline');
CF2 = fit(Cl2,Cd2,'smoothingspline');
CFinterp = @(Cl,Re) (5e5 - Re)/(5e5-4e5)*CF1(Cl) + (Re - 4e5)/(5e5-4e5)*CF2(Cl);
Cl = linspace(0,1,50);
Reinterp = 4.5e5;
hold on
plot(Cl,CFinterp(Cl,Reinterp),'g-')
legend('RE 400K','RE 500K','RE 450K')
I hard coded the Reynolds numbers in the interpolant there, but it is easy enough to fix that.
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Eiso MOuwen
Eiso MOuwen on 11 Jan 2021
Wow man, I really apologize for the duplicate question I hoped it would make the question a bit clearer. I really appreciate how you are helping me and I am now gathering the airfoil data and I will post it on here asap!
Eiso MOuwen
Eiso MOuwen on 12 Jan 2021
Edited: Eiso MOuwen on 12 Jan 2021
Hello! I'm back. With more data this time! I managed to gather (smooth ish) data for RE = 100.000 200.000 500.000 1.000.000. I attached an excel file if needed and further more I wrote this code to plot all the lines into one graph. I really hope you guys can still help me. My hat goes off to you!
ClRE01e6 = [-0.2581
-0.2267
-0.1977
-0.1667
-0.1415
-0.1144
-0.0882
-0.0597
-0.0344
-0.0073
0.0176
0.0463
0.0725
0.1018
0.1269
0.1558
0.1813
0.2092
0.2351
0.2622
0.2876
0.3154
0.3399
0.3672
0.3923
0.4185
0.4434
0.4699
0.4939
0.5195
0.5438
0.5695
0.5940
0.6222
0.6518
0.6880
0.7192
0.7467
0.7742
0.8012
0.8279
0.8527
0.8763
0.8763
0.9189
0.9359
0.9469
0.9566
0.9673];
CdRE01e6 = [0.01951
0.01870
0.01799
0.01711
0.01578
0.01487
0.01474
0.01473
0.01484
0.01497
0.01509
0.01510
0.01510
0.01505
0.01507
0.01502
0.01504
0.01500
0.01503
0.01500
0.01504
0.01503
0.01508
0.01508
0.01514
0.01514
0.01521
0.01523
0.01529
0.01529
0.01535
0.01534
0.01539
0.01536
0.01542
0.01543
0.01553
0.01568
0.01578
0.01585
0.01590
0.01600
0.01611
0.01611
0.01676
0.01747
0.01877
0.02034
0.02189];
ClRE02e6 = [-0.2272
-0.1974
-0.1635
-0.1343
-0.1094
-0.0823
-0.0533
-0.0263
0.0014
0.0270
0.0536
0.0784
0.1047
0.1309
0.1578
0.1836
0.2115
0.2370
0.2644
0.2907
0.3173
0.3437
0.3701
0.3955
0.4232
0.4470
0.4734
0.4986
0.5235
0.5467
0.5720
0.5944
0.6182
0.6401
0.6658
0.6989
0.7376
0.7689
0.7973
0.8245
0.8521
0.8794
0.9058
0.9307
0.9534
0.9692
0.9740
0.9777
0.9900];
CdRE02e6 = [0.01613
0.01552
0.01458
0.01367
0.01142
0.01120
0.01116
0.01119
0.01123
0.01137
0.01152
0.01166
0.01174
0.01178
0.01177
0.01179
0.01177
0.01179
0.01177
0.01180
0.01178
0.01182
0.01181
0.01185
0.01186
0.01190
0.01190
0.01195
0.01194
0.01196
0.01194
0.01194
0.01190
0.01183
0.01175
0.01164
0.01155
0.01153
0.01153
0.01151
0.01156
0.01167
0.01183
0.01205
0.01238
0.01321
0.01510
0.01732
0.01876];
ClRE05e6 = [-0.2159
-0.1892
-0.1622
-0.1351
-0.1080
-0.0819
-0.0559
-0.0285
-0.0006
0.0276
0.0557
0.0841
0.1120
0.1401
0.1683
0.1965
0.2246
0.2530
0.2814
0.3096
0.3381
0.3661
0.3944
0.4225
0.4506
0.4787
0.5065
0.5347
0.5622
0.5902
0.6174
0.6448
0.6719
0.6987
0.7257
0.7512
0.7771
0.8030
0.8284
0.8533
0.8769
0.8975
0.9139
0.9267
0.9431
0.9638
0.9848
1.0072
1.0298];
CdRE05e6=[0.01099
0.01067
0.01032
0.00998
0.00952
0.00864
0.00774
0.00737
0.00726
0.00718
0.00716
0.00714
0.00712
0.00710
0.00713
0.00714
0.00716
0.00718
0.00722
0.00722
0.00727
0.00728
0.00731
0.00734
0.00738
0.00741
0.00746
0.00751
0.00757
0.00761
0.00767
0.00773
0.00778
0.00784
0.00792
0.00801
0.00813
0.00825
0.00838
0.00857
0.00879
0.00921
0.00995
0.01089
0.01183
0.01286
0.01374
0.01442
0.01503];
ClRE1e6 = [-0.2228
-0.1954
-0.1674
-0.1395
-0.1114
-0.0835
-0.0557
-0.0282
-0.0006
0.0276
0.0561
0.0847
0.1133
0.1421
0.1705
0.1993
0.2277
0.2566
0.2566
0.3139
0.3423
0.3711
0.3711
0.4282
0.4566
0.4852
0.5135
0.5419
0.5702
0.5981
0.5981
0.6539
0.6815
0.7088
0.7361
0.7633
0.7902
0.8168
0.8410
0.8630
0.8838
0.9050
0.9263
0.9481
0.9706
0.9939
1.0171
1.0390
1.0615];
CdRE1e6 = [0.00909
0.00874
0.00856
0.00834
0.00813
0.00784
0.00742
0.00684
0.00626
0.00596
0.00582
0.00574
0.00570
0.00567
0.00564
0.00561
0.00562
0.00559
0.00559
0.00562
0.00565
0.00566
0.00566
0.00572
0.00579
0.00581
0.00587
0.00591
0.00596
0.00603
0.00603
0.00619
0.00629
0.00642
0.00655
0.00669
0.00685
0.00706
0.00747
0.00815
0.00893
0.00968
0.01037
0.01098
0.01149
0.01191
0.01226
0.01267
0.01293];
figure
hold on;
plot(ClRE01e6,CdRE01e6);
plot(ClRE02e6, CdRE02e6);
plot(ClRE05e6, CdRE05e6);
plot(ClRE1e6, CdRE1e6);

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