Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1166 g
Reihe: Aerospace Series (PEP)
Arguing from the Real Physics
Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1166 g
Reihe: Aerospace Series (PEP)
ISBN: 978-1-119-96751-4
Verlag: Wiley
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, Mcleanprovides 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. Motivated by the belief that engineering practice is enhanced in the long run by a robust understanding of the basics as well as real cause-and-effect relationships that lie behind the theory, he provides intuitive physical interpretations and explanations, debunking commonly-held misconceptions and misinterpretations, and building upon the contrasts provided by wrong explanations to strengthen understanding of the right ones.
* Provides a refreshing view of aerodynamics that is based on the author's decades of industrial experience yet is always tied to basic fundamentals.
* Provides intuitive physical interpretations and explanations, debunking commonly-held misconceptions and misinterpretations
* Offers new insights to some familiar topics, for example, what the Biot-Savart law really means and why it causes so much confusion, what "Reynolds number" and "incompressible flow" really mean, and a real physical explanation for how an airfoil produces lift.
* Addresses "real" aerodynamic situations as opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used for mathematical convenience, and omits mathematical details whenever the physical understanding can be conveyed without them.
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Foreword xi
Series Preface xiii
Preface xv
List of Symbols xix
1 Introduction to the Conceptual Landscape 1
2 From Elementary Particles to Aerodynamic Flows 5
3 Continuum Fluid Mechanics and the Navier-Stokes Equations 13
3.1 The Continuum Formulation and Its Range of Validity 13
3.2 Mathematical Formalism 16
3.3 Kinematics: Streamlines, Streaklines, Timelines, and Vorticity 18
3.4 The Equations of Motion and their Physical Meaning 33
3.5 Cause and Effect, and the Problem of Prediction 40
3.6 The Effects of Viscosity 43
3.7 Turbulence, Reynolds Averaging, and Turbulence Modeling 48
3.8 Important Dynamical Relationships 55
3.9 Dynamic Similarity 60
3.10 "Incompressible" Flow and Potential Flow 66
3.11 Compressible Flow and Shocks 70
4 Boundary Layers 79
4.1 Physical Aspects of Boundary-Layer Flows 80
4.2 Boundary-Layer Theory 99
4.3 Flat-Plate Boundary Layers and Other Simplified Cases 117
4.4 Transition and Turbulence 130
4.5 Control and Prevention of Flow Separation 150
4.6 Heat Transfer and Compressibility 158
4.7 Effects of Surface Roughness 162
5 General Features of Flows around Bodies 163
5.1 The Obstacle Effect 164
5.2 Basic Topology of Flow Attachment and Separation 168
5.3 Wakes 186
5.4 Integrated Forces: Lift and Drag 189
6 Drag and Propulsion 191
6.1 Basic Physics and Flowfield Manifestations of Drag and Thrust 192
6.2 Drag Estimation 241
6.3 Drag Reduction 250
7 Lift and Airfoils in 2D at Subsonic Speeds 259
7.1 Mathematical Prediction of Lift in 2D 260
7.2 Lift in Terms of Circulation and Bound Vorticity 265
7.3 Physical Explanations of Lift in 2D 269
7.4 Airfoils 307
8 Lift and Wings in 3D at Subsonic Speeds 359
8.1 The Flowfield around a 3D Wing 359
8.2 Distribution of Lift on a 3D Wing 376
8.3 Induced Drag 385
8.4 Wingtip Devices 411
8.5 Manifestations of Lift in the Atmosphere at Large 427
8.6 Effects of Wing Sweep 444
9 Theoretical Idealizations Revisited 471
9.1 Approximations Grouped According to how the Equations were Modified 471
9.2 Some Tools of MFD (Mental Fluid Dynamics) 482
10 Modeling Aerodynamic Flows in Computational Fluid Dynamics 491
10.1 Basic Definitions 493
10.2 The Major Classes of CFD Codes and Their Applications 493
10.3 Basic Characteristics of Numerical Solution Schemes 501
10.4 Physical Modeling in CFD 508
10.5 CFD Validation? 515
10.6 Integrated Forces and the Components of Drag 516
10.7 Solution Visualization 517
10.8 Things a User Should Know about a CFD Code before Running it 524
References 527
Index 539
