Author: Dmitriĭ Ivanovich BazovISBN: UIUC:6763Genre: TransportationFile Size: 81.73 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiDownload: 588Read: 249The book contains the principles of helicopter flight, special characteristics of the main rotor and its function in autorotation axial and oblique flow, regimes of vertical and horizontal flight, climb and descent, takeoff and landing, balance, stability and control of the helicopter and their acting aerodynamic forces. (Author).Category: Transportation. Author: Gordon J. LeishmanISBN: Genre: ScienceFile Size: 56.45 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiDownload: 583Read: 607Written by an internationally recognized teacher and researcher, this book provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft such as tilt rotors and autogiros.
The text begins with a unique technical history of helicopter flight, and then covers basic methods of rotor aerodynamic analysis, and related issues associated with the performance of the helicopter and its aerodynamic design. It goes on to cover more advanced topics in helicopter aerodynamics, including airfoil flows, unsteady aerodynamics, dynamic stall, and rotor wakes, and rotor-airframe aerodynamic interactions, with final chapters on autogiros and advanced methods of helicopter aerodynamic analysis.
Extensively illustrated throughout, each chapter includes a set of homework problems. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practising engineers, and researchers will welcome this thoroughly revised and updated text on rotating-wing aerodynamics.Category: Science. Author: RATHAKRISHNAN, E.ISBN: 301Genre: Technology & EngineeringFile Size: 38.1 MBFormat: PDF, DocsDownload: 688Read: 954This book is developed to serve as a concise text for a course on helicopter aerodynamics at the introductory level. It introduces to the rotary-wing aerodynamics, with applications to helicopters, and application of the relevant principles to the aerodynamic design of a helicopter rotor and its blades. The basic aim of this book is to make a complete text covering both the basic and applied aspects of theory of rotary wing flying machine for students, engineers, and applied physicists. The philosophy followed in this book is that the subject of helicopter aerodynamics is covered combining the theoretical analysis, physical features and the application aspects.
Considerable number of solved examples and exercise problems with answers are coined for this book. This book will cater to the requirement of numerical problems on helicopter flight performance, which is required for the students of aeronautical/aerospace engineering. SALIENT FEATURES. To provide an introductory treatment of the aerodynamic theory of rotary-wing aircraft.
To study the fundamentals of rotor aerodynamics for rotorcraft in hovering flight, axial flight, and forward flight modes. To perform blade element analysis, investigate rotating blade motion, and quantify basic helicopter performanceCategory: Technology & Engineering. SeddonISBN: UVA:X002280680Genre: HelicoptersFile Size: 53.23 MBFormat: PDF, ePubDownload: 989Read: 234This volume is an excellent introduction to the aerodynamics of helicopters. Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics provides an account of the first principles in the fluid mechanics and flight dynamics of single-rotor helicopters. The text is intended to provide, in a short volume, an introduction to the theory of rotary-wing aircraft for use by undergraduate and graduate students, while providing a detailed description of the physical phenomena involved.
The text assumes that the reader already has some knowledge of differences between the fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. Many diagrams, drawings, graphs, and representative sets of data augment the text.Category: Helicopters. McCroskeyISBN: NASA:7200Genre: Wakes (Aerodynamics)File Size: 32.51 MBFormat: PDF, MobiDownload: 652Read: 1210Aerodynamic research relating to modern helicopters includes the study of three-dimensional, unsteady, nonlinear flow fields. A selective review is made of some of the phenomenon that hamper the development of satisfactory engineering prediction techniques, but which provides a rich source of research opportunities: flow separations, compressibility effects, complex vortical wakes, and aerodynamic interference between components. Several examples of work in progress are given, including dynamic stall alleviation, the development of computational methods for transonic flow, rotor-wake predictions, and blade-vortex interactions. (Author).Category: Wakes (Aerodynamics).
Author: John M. SeddonISBN: 107Genre: Technology & EngineeringFile Size: 81.97 MBFormat: PDFDownload: 646Read: 662Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as aneasily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles ofthe aerodynamics of helicopter flight. Simon Newman has broughtthis third edition completely up to date with a full new set ofillustrations and imagery. An accompanying website ahref='all the calculation files used in the book, problems,solutions, PPT slides and supporting MATLAB® code. Simon Newman addresses the unique considerations applicable torotor UAVs and MAVs, and coverage of blade dynamics is expanded toinclude both flapping, lagging and ground resonance. New materialis included on blade tip design, flow characteristics surroundingthe rotor in forward flight, tail rotors, brown-out, blade sailingand shipborne operations. Concentrating on the well-known Sikorsky configuration of singlemain rotor with tail rotor, early chapters deal with theaerodynamics of the rotor in hover, vertical flight, forward flightand climb.
Analysis of these motions is developed to the stage ofobtaining the principal results for thrust, power and associatedquantities. Later chapters turn to the characteristics of theoverall helicopter, its performance, stability and control, and theimportant field of aerodynamic research is discussed, with somereference also to aerodynamic design practice. This introductory level treatment to the aerodynamics ofhelicopter flight will appeal to aircraft design engineers andundergraduate and graduate students in aircraft design, as well aspractising engineers looking for an introduction to or refreshercourse on the subject.Category: Technology & Engineering.
Most pilots and flight students wince at the mention of the term 'aerodynamics' because most courses and books dealing with the subject do so using complicated scientific theory and intricate mathematical formulas. And yet, an understanding of aerodynamics is essential to the people who operate and maintain airplanes.
This unique introductory guide, which sold more than 20,000 copies in its first edition, proves that the principles of flight can be easy to understand, even fascinating, to pilots and technicians who want to know how and why an aircraft behaves as it does. Avoiding technical jargon and complex calculations, Hubert 'Skip' Smith demonstrates how aerodynamic factors affect all aircraft in terms of lift, thrust, drag, in-air performance, stability, and control. Readers also get an inside look at how modern aircraft are designed-including all the steps in the design process, from concept to test flight and the reasoning behind them. This edition features expanded coverage of aircraft turning and accelerated climb performance, takeoff velocities, load and velocity-load-factors, area rules, and hypersonic flight, as well as the latest advances in laminar flow airfoils, wing and fuselage design, and high-performance lightplanes. Question and answer sections are added for classroom use.
The classic text for pilots on flight theory and aerodynamics?now in an updated Second Edition Flight Theory and Aerodynamics, the basic aeronautics text used by the United States Air Force in their Flying Safety Officer course, is the book that brings the science of flight into the cockpit. Designed for the student with little engineering or mathematical background, the book outlines the basic principles of aerodynamics and physics, using only a minimal amount of high school?level algebra and trigonometry necessary to illustrate key concepts. This expanded seventeen chapter Second Edition reflects the cutting edge of aeronautic theory and practice, and has been revised, reorganized, and updated with 30% new information?including a new chapter on helicopter flight.
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As aircraft grow more complex and the controls become more involved, an intuitive grasp of the physics of flight is your most valuable tool for operational safety. Flight Theory and Aerodynamics is the essential resource every pilot needs for a clear understanding of the forces they control. Much-needed, fresh approach that brings a greater insight intothe physical understanding of aerodynamics Based on the author’s decades of industrial experiencewith Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers togain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics.
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Understanding Flight, Second Edition, explains the principles of aeronautics in terms, descriptions, and illustrations that make sense-without complicated mathematics. Updated to include helicopter flight fundamentals and aircraft structures, this aviation classic is required reading for new pilots, students, engineers, and anyone fascinated with flight. Understanding Flight, Second Edition, covers: Physics of flight Wing design and configuration Stability and control Propulsion High-speed flight Performance and safety Aerodynamic testing Helicopters and autogyros Aircraft structures and materials. 'A review of basic physical principles and vector analysis, lift, weight, thrust, drag, as well as other aviation topics as they relate to aerodynamics. This textbook takes the private and commercial student pilot through a review of basic physical principles and vector analysis and covers the four forces in flight - lift, weight, thrust and drag, as well as other aviation topics as they relate to aerodynamics, such as the atmosphere, stability, power and performance, aircraft limitations and maneuvering flight, and stalls and spins.
The 2nd Edition now includes a chapter on high-speed (transonic) aerodynamics. The authors teach aviation subjects at the University of North Dakota's Aerospace Sciences Department and also have extensive experience as military and civilian pilots and instructors. 150 pages, illustrations throughout'-Provided by publisher.