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Aerodynamics for Engineering Students

  • 7th Edition - August 12, 2016
  • Authors: Steven H. Collicott, Daniel T. Valentine, E. L. Houghton, P. W. Carpenter
  • Language: English

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined… Read more

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Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning, and includes new or expanded coverage in several important areas, such as hypersonic flow, UAV’s, and computational fluid dynamics.

Key features

  • Provides contemporary applications and examples that help students see the link between everyday physical examples of aerodynamics and the application of aerodynamic principles to aerodynamic design
  • Contains MATLAB-based computational exercises throughout, giving students practice in using industry-standard computational tools
  • Includes examples in SI and Imperial units, reflecting the fact that the aerospace industry uses both systems of units
  • Improved pedagogy, including more examples and end-of-chapter problems, and additional and updated MATLAB codes

Readership

Undergraduate and graduate students in aeronautical engineering

Table of contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Basic Concepts and Definitions

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Units and Dimensions

1.3 Relevant Properties

1.4 Aeronautical Definitions

1.5 Dimensional Analysis

1.6 Basic Aerodynamics

1.7 Basic Flight Stability

1.8 Control-Volume Analysis

1.9 Hydrostatics

1.10 Exercises

PART II: FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUID MECHANICS

CHAPTER 2 Equations of Motion

2.1 Introduction

2.2 One-Dimensional Flow: The Basic Equations

2.3 Viscous Boundary Layers

2.4 Measurement of Air Speed

2.5 Two-Dimensional Flow

2.6 Stream Function and Streamline

2.7 Momentum Equation

2.8 Rates of Strain, Rotational Flow, and Vorticity

2.9 Navier-Stokes Equations

2.10 Properties of the Navier-Stokes Equations

2.11 Exact Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations

2.12 Exercises

CHAPTER 3 Viscous Boundary Layers

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Boundary-Layer Theory

3.3 Similarity Solutions

3.4 Boundary-Layer Separation

3.5 Flow Past Cylinders and Spheres

3.6 The Momentum-Integral Equation

3.7 Approximate Methods for a Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate with Zero Pressure Gradient

3.8 Additional Examples of the Momentum-Integral Equation

3.9 Laminar-Turbulent Transition

3.10 The Physics of Turbulent Boundary Layers

3.11 Exercises

CHAPTER 4 Compressible Flow

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Isentropic One-Dimensional Flow

4.3 One-Dimensional Flow: Weak Waves

4.4 One-Dimensional Flow: Plane Normal Shock Waves

4.5 Mach Waves

4.6 Shock Waves

4.7 Some Boundary-Layer Effects in Supersonic Flow

4.8 Exercises

PART III: AERODYNAMICS OF WINGS AND BODIES

CHAPTER 5 Potential Flow

5.1 Two-Dimensional Flows

5.2 Standard Flows in Terms of the vVelocity Potential and Stream Function

5.3 Axisymmetric Flows (Inviscid and Incompressible Flows)

5.4 Computational (Panel) Methods

5.5 Exercises

CHAPTER 6 Two-Dimensional Wing Theory

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Development of Airfoil Theory

6.3 General Thin-Airfoil Theory

6.4 Solution to the General Equation

6.5 The Flapped Airfoil

6.6 The Jet Flap

6.7 Normal Force and Pitching Moment Derivatives Due to Pitching

6.8 Particular Camber Lines

6.9 The Thickness Problem for Thin-Airfoil Theory

6.10 Computational (Panel) Methods for Two-Dimensional Lifting Flows

6.11 Exercises

CHAPTER 7 Wing Theory

7.1 The Vortex System

7.2 Laws of Vortex Motion

7.3 The Wing as a Simplified Horseshoe Vortex

7.4 Vortex Sheets

7.5 Relationship between Spanwise Loading and Trailing Vorticity

7.6 Determination of Load Distribution on a Given Wing

7.7 Swept and Delta Wings

7.8 Computational (Panel) Methods for Wings

7.9 Exercises

CHAPTER 8 Airfoils and Wings in Compressible Flow

8.1 Wings in Compressible Flow

8.2 Exercises

PART IV: APPLICATIONS OF AERODYNAMICS

CHAPTER 9: Computational Fluid Dynamics

9.1 Computational Methods

CHAPTER 10 Flow Control, Planar and Rotating Wing Designs

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Maximizing Lift for Single-Element Airfoils

10.3 Multi-Element Airfoils

10.4 Boundary Layer Control Prevention to Separation

10.5 Reduction of Skin-Friction Drag

10.6 Reduction of Form Drag

10.7 Reduction of Induced Drag

10.8 Low-speed Aircraft Design Considerations

10.9 Propeller and Rotorcraft Blades

10.10 Reduction of Wave Drag

10.11 Exercises

Appendix A: Symbols and Notation
Appendix B: Properties of Standard Atmosphere
Appendix C: A Solution of Glauert Type Integrals
Appendix D: Conversion of Imperial Units to Syst´eme International (SI) Units

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About the authors

SC

Steven H. Collicott

Steven Collicott is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, low-gravity fluid dynamics, optical diagnostics, and applied optics. He has led the proposing, design, and construction of 27 low-gravity NASA aircraft experiments, designed 2 of 6 tests in the successful Capillary Fluids Experiments (CFE) performed in the International Space Station in 2006/07, and advised on CFE modifications scheduled for launch in 2010. Professor Collicott is the president-elect of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR). He was Inducted into Purdue’s “Book of Great Teachers” in 2008, which “honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom.”
Affiliations and expertise
Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

DV

Daniel T. Valentine

Daniel T. Valentine Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University. Dr. Valentine is also co-author of Aerodynamics for Engineering Students (Butterworth Heinemann).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

PC

P. W. Carpenter

Affiliations and expertise
Warwick University, UK

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