Introduction to Transonic Aerodynamics

✍ Scribed by Roelof Vos, Saeed Farokhi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 561
• Series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications 110
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written to teach students the nature of transonic flow and its mathematical foundation, this book offers a much-needed introduction to transonic aerodynamics. The authors present a quantitative and qualitative assessment of subsonic, supersonic and transonic flow around bodies in two and three dimensions. The book reviews the governing equations and explores their applications and limitations as employed in modeling and computational fluid dynamics.

Some concepts, such as shock and expansion theory, are examined from a numerical perspective. Others, including shock-boundary-layer interaction, are discussed from a qualitative point of view. The book includes 60 examples and more than 200 practice problems. The authors also offer analytical methods such as Method of Characteristics (MOC) that allow readers to practice with the subject matter.

The result is a wealth of insight into transonic flow phenomena and their impact on aircraft design, including compressibility effects, shock and expansion waves, shock-boundary-layer interaction and aeroelasticity.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction and Historic Perspective....Pages 1-19
Review of Fundamental Equations....Pages 21-79
Transonic Similarity Laws....Pages 81-144
Shock-Expansion Theory....Pages 145-209
Method of Characteristics....Pages 211-273
Aerodynamics of Non-lifting Bodies....Pages 275-366
Airfoil Aerodynamics....Pages 367-426
Aerodynamics of Swept Wings....Pages 427-511
Back Matter....Pages 513-555

✦ Subjects

Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Engineering Design; Structural Mechanics