The Fowler flap was invented around 1920 by one Harlan Davey Fowler, an engineer who was then in the employ of the U.S. Army. An internet search for his name turns up, in addition to various ...

This MATLAB script sizes trailing-edge Fowler flaps and leading-edge slats for an airliner wing using a modified Roskam Part VI methodology. It takes clean wing aerodynamic data from OpenVSP (VSPAERO) ...