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WILEY INDIA Understanding Aerodynamics Arguing From The Real Physics by Doug McLean
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 clear physical arguments and examples, Mclean provides a much-needed, fresh approach to this sometimes contentious subject without shying away from addressing "real" aerodynamic situations as opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used for mathematical convenience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Series Preface
Preface
List of Symbols
1 Introduction to the Conceptual Landscape
2 From Elementary Particles to Aerodynamic Flows
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
3.5 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
3.9 Dynamic Similarity
3.10 "Incompressible" Flow and Potential Flow
3.11 Compressible Flow and Shocks
4 Boundary Layers
4.1 Physical Aspects of Boundary-Layer Flows
4.2 Boundary-Layer Theory
4.3 Flat-Plate Boundary Layers and Other Simplified Cases
4.4 Transition and Turbulence
4.5 Control and Prevention of Flow Separation
4.6 Heat Transfer and Compressibility
4.7 Effects of Surface Roughness
5 General Features of Flows around Bodies
5.1 The Obstacle Effect
5.2 Basic Topology of Flow Attachment and Separation
5.3 Wakes
5.4 Integrated Forces: Lift and Drag
6 Drag and Propulsion
6.1 Basic Physics and Flowfield Manifestations of Drag and Thrust
6.2 Drag Estimation
6.3 Drag Reduction
7 Lift and Airfoils in 2D at Subsonic Speeds
7.1 Mathematical Prediction of Lift in 2D
7.2 Lift in Terms of Circulation and Bound Vorticity
7.3 Physical Explanations of Lift in 2D
7.4 Airfoils
8 Lift and Wings in 3D at Subsonic Speeds
8.1 The Flowfield around a 3D Wing
8.2 Distribution of Lift on a 3D Wing
8.3 Induced Drag
8.4 Wingtip Devices
8.5 Manifestations of Lift in the Atmosphere at Large
8.6 Effects of Wing Sweep
9 Theoretical Idealizations Revisited
9.1 Approximations Grouped According to how the Equations were Modified
9.2 Some Tools of MFD (Mental Fluid Dynamics)
10 Modeling Aerodynamic Flows in Computational Fluid Dynamics
10.1 Basic Definitions
10.2 The Major Classes of CFD Codes and Their Applications
10.3 Basic Characteristics of Numerical Solution Schemes
10.4 Physical Modeling in CFD
10.5 CFD Validation?
10.6 Integrated Forces and the Components of Drag
10.7 Solution Visualization
10.8 Things a User Should Know about a CFD Code before Running it
References
Index