Theoretical and Applied Aerodynamics: and Related Numerical Methods

✍ Scribed by J. J. Chattot, M. M. Hafez (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 625
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers classical and modern aerodynamics, theories and related numerical methods, for senior and first-year graduate engineering students, including:
-The classical potential (incompressible) flow theories for low speed aerodynamics of thin airfoils and high and low aspect ratio wings.
- The linearized theories for compressible subsonic and supersonic aerodynamics.
- The nonlinear transonic small disturbance potential flow theory, including supercritical wing sections, the extended transonic area rule with lift effect, transonic lifting line and swept or oblique wings to minimize wave drag. Unsteady flow is also briefly discussed. Numerical simulations based on relaxation mixed-finite difference methods are presented and explained.
- Boundary layer theory for all Mach number regimes and viscous/inviscid interaction procedures used in practical aerodynamics calculations.
There are also four chapters covering special topics, including wind turbines and propellers, airplane design, flow analogies and hypersonic (rotational) flows.

A unique feature of the book is its ten self-tests and their solutions as well as an appendix on special techniques of functions of complex variables, method of characteristics and conservation laws and shock waves. The book is the culmination of two courses taught every year by the two authors for the last two decades to seniors and first-year graduate students of aerospace engineering at UC Davis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-11
Inviscid, Incompressible Flow Past Circular Cylinders and Joukowski Airfoils....Pages 13-49
Inviscid, Incompressible Flow Past Thin Airfoils....Pages 51-89
Inviscid, Compressible Flow Past Thin Airfoils....Pages 91-133
Inviscid, Unsteady Flows Past Airfoils....Pages 135-153
Flow Past Large and Moderate Aspect Ratio Wings....Pages 155-216
Axisymmetric Flows and Slender Body Theories....Pages 217-259
Viscous Fluid Flow and Laminar Boundary Layers....Pages 261-291
Viscous/Inviscid Interaction Procedures....Pages 293-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Wind Turbine and Propeller Aerodynamics—Analysis and Design....Pages 327-372
Glider and Airplane Design....Pages 373-397
Introduction to Hypersonic Flows....Pages 399-456
Flow Analogies....Pages 457-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Problems....Pages 481-513
Solutions to Problems....Pages 515-577
Back Matter....Pages 579-620

✦ Subjects

Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Numerical and Computational Physics; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering