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  title info:
    title: Understanding aerodynamics
    sub title: arguing from the real physics
  name:
    name part: McLean, Doug
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K
    publisher: Wiley
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xxv, 550 p. : ill.
  abstract: "Much-needed, fresh approach that brings a greater insight into the physical understanding of aerodynamicsBased 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. "--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: List of symbols Preface 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 3.3.1 ... Streamlines and streaklines 3.3.2 ... Streamtubes, stream surfaces, and the stream function 3.3.3 ... Timelines 3.3.4 ... The divergence of the velocity, and Green's theorem 3.3.5 ... Vorticity and circulation 3.3.6 ... The velocity potential in irrotational flow 3.3.7 ... Concepts that arise in describing the vorticity field 3.3.8 ... Velocity fields associated with concentrations of vorticity 3.3.9 ... The Biot-Savart law and the "induction" fallacy 3.4 The equations of motion and their physical meaning 3.4.1 ... Continuity of the flow and conservation of mass 3.4.2 ... Conservation of momentum 3.4.3 ... Conservation of energy 3.4.4 ... Constitutive relations and boundary conditions 3.4.5 ... Mathematical nature of the equations 3.4.6 ... The physics as viewed in the Eulerian frame 3.4.7 ... The pseudo-Lagrangian viewpoint 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 3.8.1 ... Galilean invariance, or independence of reference frame 3.8.2 ... Circulation preservation and the persistence of irrotationality 3.8.3 ... Behavior of vortex tubes in inviscid and viscous flows 3.8.4 ... Bernoulli equations and stagnation conditions 3.8.5 ... Crocco's theorem 3.9 Dynamic similarity 3.9.1 ... Compressibility effects and the Mach number 3.9.2 ... Viscous effects and the Reynolds number 3.9.3 ... Scaling of pressure forces: the dynamic pressure 3.9.4 ... Consequences of failing to match all of the requirements for similarity 3.10 "Incompressible" flow and potential flow 3.11 Compr…
  table of contents: Boundary layers on swept wings 8.6.3 ... Shock/boundary-layer interaction on swept wings 8.6.4 ... Laminar-to-turbulent transition on swept wings 8.6.5 ... Relating a swept, tapered wing to a 2D airfoil 8.6.6 ... Tailoring of the inboard part of a swept wing 9 Theoretical idealizations revisited 9.1 Approximations grouped according to how the equations were modified 9.1.1 ... Reduced temporal and/or spatial resolution 9.1.2 ... Simplified theories based on neglecting something small 9.1.3 ... Reductions in dimensions 9.1.4 ... Simplified theories based on ad hoc flow models 9.1.5 ... Qualitative anomalies and other consequences of approximations 9.2 Some tools of MFD (Mental Fluid Dynamics) 9.2.1 ... Simple conceptual models for thinking about velocity fields 9.2.2 ... Thinking about viscous and shock drag 9.2.3 ... Thinking about induced drag 9.2.4 ... A catalog of fallacies 10. Modeling aerodynamic flows in CFD 10.1 Basic definitions 10.2 The major classes of CFD codes and their applications 10.2.1. Navier-Stokes (NS) methods 10.2.2. Coupled viscous/inviscid methods 10.2.3. Inviscid methods 10.2.4. Standalone boundary-layer codes 10.3 Basic characteristics of numerical solution schemes 10.3.1. Discretization 10.3.2. Spatial field grids 10.3.3. Grid resolution and grid convergence 10.3.4. Solving the equations, and iterative convergence 10.4 Physical modeling in CFD 10.4.1. Compressibility and shocks 10.4.2. Viscous effects and turbulence 10.4.3. Separated shear layers and vortex wakes 10.4.4. The farfield 10.4.5. Predicting drag 10.4.6. Propulsion effects 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 any CFD code before running it References.
  note: Doug McLean.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-537) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Aerodynamics
  classification: TL570 .M3823 2013eb
  classification: 629.132/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Aerospace series (Chichester, England)
  identifier: 9781119967514 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781118454213 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012032706
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
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