This excellent, innovative reference offers a wealth of useful information and a solid background in the fundamentals of aerodynamics. Fluid mechanics, constant density inviscid flow, singular perturbation problems, viscosity, thin-wing and slender body theories, drag minimalization, and other essentials are addressed in a lively, literate manner and accompanied by diagrams.

Table of Contents for Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies

1. Review of Fundamentals of Fuid Mechanics
1-1 General Assumptions and Basic Differential Equations
1-2 Conservation Laws for a Barotropic Fluid in a Conservative Body Force Field
1-3 Some Geometric or Kinematic Properties of the Velocity Field
1-4 The Independence of Scale in Inviscid Flows
1-5 Vortex Theorems for the Ideal Fluid
1-6 Integral Conservation Theorems for Inviscid Fluid
1-7 Irrotational Flow
1-8 The Acceleration Potential
2. Constant-Density Inviscid Flow
2-1 Introduction
2-2 The Three-Dimensional Rigid Solid Moving Through a Liquid
2-3 The Representation of ? in Terms of Boundary Values
2-4 "Further Examination of the Rigid, Impermeable Solid Moving Through a Constant-Density Fluid Without Circulation"
2-5 Some Deductions from Lagrange's Equations of Motion in Particular Cases
2-6 Examples of Two- and Three-Dimensional Flows Without Circulation
2-7 Circulation and the Topology of Flow Regimes
2-8 Examples of Constant-Density Flows Where Circulation May Be Generated
2-9 "Two-Dimensional, Constant-Density Flow: Fundamental Ideas"
2-10 "Two-Dimensinal, Constant-Density Flow: Conformal Transformations and Their Uses"
2-11 The Kutta Condition and Lift
3. Singular Perturbation Problems
3-1 Introduction
3-2 Expansion in a Small Parameter; Singular Peturbation Problems
4. Effects of Viscosity
4-1 Introduction
4-2 Qualitative Effects of Viscosity
4-3 Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate
5. Thin-Wing Theory
5-1 Introduction
5-2 Expansion Procedure for the Equations of Motion
5-3 Thin Airfoils in Incompressible Flow
5-4 Thin Airfoils in Supersonic Flow
6. Slender-Body Theory
6-1 Introduction
6-2 Expansion Procedure for Axisymmetric Flow
6-3 Solutions for Subsonic and Supersonic Flows
6-4 General Slender Body
6-5 Examples of Lifting Slender-Body flow
6-6 The Pressure Drag of a Slender Body in Supersonic Flow
6-7 Transverse Forces and Moments on a Slender Body
7. "Three-Dimensional Wings in Steady, Subsonic Flow"
7-1 Compressibility Corrections for Wings
7-2 Constant-Density Flow: the Thickness Problem
7-3 Constant-Density Flow: the Lifting Problem
7-4 Lifting-Line Theory
7-5 More Refined Theories of Lifting-Line type
7-6 Theories of Lifting-Surface Type
8. Three-Dimensional Thin Wings in Steady Supersonic Flow
8-1 Introduction
8-2 Nonlifting Wings
8-3 Lifting Wings of Simple Planform
8-4 The Method of Evvard and Krasilshchikova
8-5 Conical Flows
8-6 Numerical Integration Schemes
Appendix to Sectio
9. Drag at Supersonic Speeds
9-1 Introduction
9-2 Calculation of Supersonic Drag by Use of Momentum Theory
9-3 Drag of a Lineal Source Distribution
9-4 Optimum Shape of a Slender Body of Revolution
9-5 Drag of a General Source Distribution. Hayes' Method
9-6 Extension to Include Lift and Side Force Elements
9-7 The Supersonic Area Rule
9-8 Wave Drag Due to Lift
10. Use of Flow-Reversal Theorems in Drag Minimization Problems
10-1 Introduction
10-2 "Drag of a General Singularity Distribution from a "Close" Viewpoint"
10-3 The Drag Due to Lift in Forward and Reverse Flows
10-4 The Drag Due to Thickness in Forward and Reverse Flows
10-5 The Drag of a General Distribution of Singularities in Steady Supersonic Forward or Reverse Flows
10-6 The Combined Flow Field
10-7 Use of the Combined Flow Field to Identify Minimum Drag Conditions
10-8 The Calculation of Minimum Drag by Solution of an Equivalent Two-Dimensional Potential Problem
11. Interference and Nonplanar Lifting-Surfaces Theories
11-1 Introduction
11-2 Interfering or Nonplanar Lifting Surfaces in Subsonic Flow
11-3 Special Cases and Numerical Solution
11-4 Loads on Interfereing Surfaces in Subsonic Flow
11-5 Nonplanar Lifting Surfaces in Supersonic Flow
12 Transonic Small-Disturbance flow
12-1 Introduction
12-2 Small-Perturbation Flow Equations
12-3 Similarity Rules
12-4 Methods of Solution
13 Unsteady Flow
13-1 Statement of the Problem
13-2 "Two Dimensional, Constant-Density Flow"
13-3 Airfoils Oscillating at Supersonic and Subsonic Speeds
13-4 Indicial Motion in a Compressible Fluid
13-5 Three-Dimensional Oscillating Wings
References and Author Index
List of Symbols
Index

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