Aircraft design /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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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.