la a rather aeaeral sense, ia"erse airfoU desila caa be takea to meaa the problem of speclfyinl a desired set of airfoU characteristics, sudl as tbe airfoU maxima .. tblekaess ratio, pltchlal moment, part of tbe "e1oclty distributioa, or bouadary-layer develop_t. From tills laformatloa, the correspoadinl airfoU shape is determiaed. This paper presents a metbod tbat approacha tbe desiga problem ...