Understanding Aerodynamics : Arguing from the Real Physics.
Much-needed, fresh approach that brings a greater insight into the physical understanding of aerodynamics Based on the author's decades of industrial experience with Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers to gain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics. Relying on cl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Wiley,
2012.
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Colección: | Aerospace Series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding Aerodynamics; Contents; Foreword; Series Preface; Preface; List of Symbols; Chapter 1 Introduction to the Conceptual Landscape; Chapter 2 From Elementary Particles to Aerodynamic Flows; Chapter 3 Continuum Fluid Mechanics and the Navier-Stokes Equations; 3.1 The Continuum Formulation and Its Range of Validity; 3.2 Mathematical Formalism; 3.3 Kinematics: Streamlines, Streaklines, Timelines, and Vorticity; 3.3.1 Streamlines and Streaklines; 3.3.2 Streamtubes, Stream Surfaces, and the Stream Function; 3.3.3 Timelines; 3.3.4 The Divergence of the Velocity and Green's Theorem.
- 3.3.5 Vorticity and Circulation3.3.6 The Velocity Potential in Irrotational Flow; 3.3.7 Concepts that Arise in Describing the Vorticity Field; 3.3.8 Velocity Fields Associated with Concentrations of Vorticity; 3.3.9 The Biot-Savart Law and the ``Induction'' Fallacy; 3.4 The Equations of Motion and their Physical Meaning; 3.4.1 Continuity of the Flow and Conservation of Mass; 3.4.2 Forces on Fluid Parcels and Conservation of Momentum; 3.4.3 Conservation of Energy; 3.4.4 Constitutive Relations and Boundary Conditions; 3.4.5 Mathematical Nature of the Equations.
- 3.4.6 The Physics as Viewed in the Eulerian Frame3.4.7 The Pseudo-Lagrangian Viewpoint; 3.5 Cause and Effect, and the Problem of Prediction; 3.6 The Effects of Viscosity; 3.7 Turbulence, Reynolds Averaging, and Turbulence Modeling; 3.8 Important Dynamical Relationships; 3.8.1 Galilean Invariance, or Independence of Reference Frame; 3.8.2 Circulation Preservation and the Persistence of Irrotationality; 3.8.3 Behavior of Vortex Tubes in Inviscid and Viscous Flows; 3.8.4 Bernoulli Equations and Stagnation Conditions; 3.8.5 Crocco's Theorem; 3.9 Dynamic Similarity.
- 3.9.1 Compressibility Effects and the Mach Number3.9.2 Viscous Effects and the Reynolds Number; 3.9.3 Scaling of Pressure Forces: the Dynamic Pressure; 3.9.4 Consequences of Failing to Match All of the Requirements for Similarity; 3.10 ``Incompressible'' Flow and Potential Flow; 3.11 Compressible Flow and Shocks; 3.11.1 Steady 1D Isentropic Flow Theory; 3.11.2 Relations for Normal and Oblique Shock Waves; Chapter 4 Boundary Layers; 4.1 Physical Aspects of Boundary-Layer Flows; 4.1.1 The Basic Sequence: Attachment, Transition, Separation.
- 4.1.2 General Development of the Boundary-Layer Flowfield4.1.3 Boundary-Layer Displacement Effect; 4.1.4 Separation from a Smooth Wall; 4.2 Boundary-Layer Theory; 4.2.1 The Boundary-Layer Equations; 4.2.2 Integrated Momentum Balance in a Boundary Layer; 4.2.3 The Displacement Effect and Matching with the Outer Flow; 4.2.4 The Vorticity ``Budget'' in a 2D Incompressible Boundary Layer; 4.2.5 Situations That Violate the Assumptions of Boundary-Layer Theory; 4.2.6 Summary of Lessons from Boundary-Layer Theory; 4.3 Flat-Plate Boundary Layers and Other Simplified Cases; 4.3.1 Flat-Plate Flow.