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Aircraft Design explores fixed winged aircraft design at the conceptual phase of a project. Designing an aircraft is a complex multifaceted process embracing many technical challenges in a multidisciplinary environment. By definition, the topic requires intelligent use of aerodynamic knowledge to co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kundu, Ajoy Kumar, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge aerospace series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Symbols and Abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • Greek Symbols
  • Subscripts
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Road Map of the Book
  • The Arrangement
  • Suggested Route for the Coursework
  • First Semester
  • Second Semester
  • Suggestions for the Class
  • Use of Semi-empirical Relations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Overview
  • 1.1.1 What Is to Be Learned?
  • 1.1.2 Coursework Content
  • 1.2 Brief Historical Background
  • 1.3 Current Aircraft Design Status
  • 1.3.1 Forces and Drivers
  • 1.3.2 Current Civil Aircraft Design Trends
  • 1.3.3 Current Military Aircraft Design Trends
  • 1.4 Future Trends
  • 1.4.1 Civil Aircraft Design: Future Trends
  • 1.4.2 Military Aircraft Design: Future Trends
  • 1.5 Learning Process
  • 1.6 Units and Dimensions
  • 1.7 Cost Implications
  • 2 Methodology to Aircraft Design, Market Survey, and Airworthiness
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.1.1 What Is to Be Learned?
  • 2.1.2 Coursework Content
  • 2.2 Introduction
  • 2.3 Typical Design Process
  • 2.3.1 Four Phases of Aircraft Design
  • 2.3.2 Typical Resources Deployment
  • 2.3.3 Typical Cost Frame
  • 2.3.4 Typical Time Frame
  • 2.4 Typical Task Breakdown in Each Phase
  • Phase 1: Conceptual Study Phase (Feasibility Study)
  • Phase 2: Project Definition Phase (Preliminary Design)
  • Phase 3: Detailed Design Phase (Full-Scale Product Development)
  • Phase 4: Final Phase (Certification)
  • 2.4.1 Functional Tasks during the Conceptual Study (Phase 1: Civil Aircraft)
  • 2.4.2 Project Activities for Small Aircraft Design
  • 2.5 Aircraft Familiarization
  • 2.5.1 Civil Aircraft and Its Component Configurations
  • 2.5.2 Military Aircraft and Its Component Configurations
  • 2.6 Market Survey
  • 2.7 Civil Aircraft Market
  • 2.7.1 Aircraft Specifications and Requirements for Three Civil Aircraft Case Studies
  • 2.8 Military Market
  • 2.8.1 Aircraft Specifications/Requirements for Military Aircraft Case Studies
  • 2.9 Comparison between Civil and Military Aircraft Design Requirements
  • 2.10 Airworthiness Requirements
  • 2.11 Coursework Procedures
  • 3 Aerodynamic Considerations
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.1.1 What Is to Be Learned?
  • 3.1.2 Coursework Content
  • 3.2 Introduction
  • 3.3 Atmosphere
  • 3.4 Fundamental Equations
  • 3.5 Airflow Behavior: Laminar and Turbulent
  • 3.5.1 Flow Past Aerofoil
  • 3.6 Aircraft Motion and Forces
  • 3.6.1 Motion
  • 3.6.2 Forces
  • 3.7 Aerofoil
  • 3.7.1 Groupings of Aerofoils and Their Properties
  • 3.8 Definitions of Aerodynamic Parameters
  • 3.9 Generation of Lift
  • 3.10 Types of Stall
  • 3.10.1 Gradual Stall
  • 3.10.2 Abrupt Stall
  • 3.11 Comparison of Three NACA Aerofoils
  • 3.12 High-Lift Devices
  • 3.13 Transonic Effects Area Rule
  • 3.14 Wing Aerodynamics
  • 3.14.1 Induced Drag and Total Aircraft Drag
  • 3.15 Aspect Ratio Correction of 2D Aerofoil Characteristics for 3D Finite Wing
  • 3.16 Wing Definitions
  • 3.16.1 Planform Area, SW
  • 3.16.2 Wing Aspect Ratio
  • 3.16.3 Wing Sweep Angle, A
  • 3.16.4 Wing Root (Croot) and Tip (Ctip) Chord
  • 3.16.5 Wing Taper Ratio, Lambda
  • 3.16.6 Wing Twist
  • 3.16.7 HighLow Wing
  • 3.16.8 DihedralAnhedral Angles
  • 3.17 Mean Aerodynamic Chord
  • 3.18 Compressibilit.