Low-Speed Aerodynamics

by Allen Plotkin and Joseph Katz

Book Overview

Low-speed aerodynamics is important in the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach number, and ground and marine vehicles. This 2001 book offers a modern treatment of the subject, both the theory of inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational aerodynamics and the computational techniques now available to solve complex problems. A unique feature of the text is that the computational approach (from a single vortex element to a three-dimensional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521665523
• ISBN13: 9780521665520
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and Insightful

This is a comprehensive textbook which covers in detail most of what an aeronautical engineering graduate interested in low-speed aerodynamics will find useful and handy. This is not a book for the novice but for those with good engineering and mathematics background seeking in-depth knowledge of the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach numbers and marine vehicles. For the target audience, the book is well written with clear explanations and sufficient detail.

A must for anyone interested in panel methods

Comprehensive in both theoretical and numerical presentation. The authors show how to model inviscid, incompressible aerodynamics using panel methods which are based on potential theory. They also show how to incorporate viscosity inside the boundary layer. I found the book's detailed treatment of panel methods for unsteady aerodynamics particularly useful. Most textbooks only show the steady state case. The book is very practical with very good description of algorithms. At the end of the book, you can also find sample programs developed by authors' students.

a lot of informations in a small book

This volume is a quite complete course in low speed range aerodynamics. Even if the authors limit themselves to incompressible and irrotational fluid fieds, they present a complete course giving a substantial theorical apparatus with a logically developed computational methods.The mathematical level is really excellent, since the presentation is thoroghly worked out with detailed explanation of each formulae or passage. The most enticing feature of this tome is the systematic treatment of computational methods with different approaches to them to obtain the full range of solutions. This is achived by implementing additional level of complexity along the process, showing the dependence of each function in numerical modelling.Altogether, this book is a good start for understanding the computational techniques and the classic theory.