Aircraft performance and sizing. Volume II, Applied aerodynamic design /
This book is a concise practical treatise for the student or experienced professional aircraft designer. This volume comprises key applied subjects for performance based aircraft design: systems engineering principles; aircraft mass properties estimation; the aerodynamic design of transonic wings; a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Momentum Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Aerospace engineering collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Systems engineering and the design process
- 1.1 The systems engineering vee, a plan for success
- 1.2 Conceptual design
- 1.3 Multidisciplinary trade studies
- 1.4 Model fidelity
- 1.5 Detail design
- 1.6 Risk reduction and mitigation.
- 2. Weight and volume estimation
- 2.1 A self referential problem: how much an aircraft weighs at takeoff is a function of how much it weighs empty
- 2.2 Approaches to aircraft sizing
- 2.3 Empirical methods to estimate empty weight
- 2.4 Modeling and simulation methods to estimate empty weight
- 2.5 Estimating mass moments of inertia.
- 3. Stability and controllability
- 3.1 Aerodynamic database generation
- 3.2 Aerodynamic database presentation
- 3.3 Empirical methods to size the vertical and horizontal tail
- 3.4 Modeling and simulation approach to stability and control
- 3.5 Longitudinal trim
- 3.6 Longitudinal stability
- 3.7 CG placement, horizontal tail, and elevator sizing
- 3.8 Lateral-directional trim
- 3.9 Lateral-directional stability
- 3.10 Lateral-directional control.
- 4. Field performance principles
- 4.1 Takeoff in a nutshell
- 4.2 Simplified statistical method for takeoff
- 4.3 Computing takeoff cue speeds
- 4.4 Modeling and simulation methods for takeoff
- 4.5 Takeoff noise, certification and abatement procedures
- 4.6 Approach and landing in a nutshell
- 4.7 Computing landing cue speeds
- 4.8 Simplified statistical model for landing
- 4.9 Modeling and simulation methods for landing.
- 5. The aerodynamic design of wings
- 5.1 Planform geometry
- 5.2 Three-dimensional flow effects
- 5.3 Transonic flow over two-dimensional airfoils
- 5.4 Selecting an appropriate airfoil for transonic flight
- 5.5 Sweep effects
- 5.6 Nonplanarity
- 5.7 Designing a wing for optimal performance.
- 6. Aircraft sizing and synthesis, putting it all together
- 6.1 Aircraft sizing in a nutshell
- 6.2 Simple sizing using Breguet's equation
- 6.3 Sizing using a multidisciplinary optimization approach
- 6.4 Systems design examples
- 6.5 Afterword
- Index.