Название: Aircraft Performance: An Engineering Approach, 2nd Edition
Автор: Mohammad H. Sadraey
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 693
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 21.7 MB

Aircraft Performance: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition introduces flight performance analysis techniques of fixed-wing air vehicles, particularly heavier-than-aircraft. It covers maximum speed, absolute ceiling, rate of climb, range, endurance, turn performance, and takeoff run. Enabling the reader to analyze the performance and flight capabilities of an aircraft by utilizing only the aircraft weight data, geometry, and engine characteristics, this book covers the flight performance analysis for both propeller-driven and jet aircraft. The second edition features new content on vertical takeoff and landing, UAV launch, UAV recovery, use of rocket engine as the main engine, range for electric aircraft, electric engine, endurance for electric aircraft, gliding flight, pull-up, and climb-turn. In addition, this book includes end-of-chapter problems, MATLAB code and examples, and case studies to enhance and reinforce student understanding. The performance of a military airplane is of high importance, since in an aerial mission, the fighter aircraft that has a high performance will always fulfill the mission’s purpose and will win a fight. The result of an air fight depends not only on aircraft weight, configuration, cost, pilot experience, and so on but also on its capabilities, that is, flight performance. This book presents techniques and methods that enable the reader to analyze the performance and flight capabilities of an aircraft by utilizing only aircraft weight data, geometry, aerodynamic characteristics, and engine data.

Название: High-Lift Aerodynamics
Автор: Jochen Wild
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 308
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 18.6 MB

This book presents a detailed look at high-lift aerodynamics, which deals with the aerodynamic behavior of lift augmentation means from various approaches. After an introductory chapter, the book discusses the physical limits of lift generation, giving the lift generation potential. It then explains what is needed for an aircraft to fly safely by analyzing the high-lift-related requirements for certifying an aircraft. Aircraft needs are also analyzed to improve performance during takeoff, approach, and landing. The book discusses in detail the applied means to increase the lift coefficient by either passive and active high-lift systems. It includes slotless and slotted high-lift flaps, active and passive vortex generating devices, boundary and circulation control, and powered lift. Describing methods that are used to evaluate and design high-lift systems in an aerodynamic sense, the book briefly covers numerical as well as experimental simulation methods. It also includes a chapter on the aerodynamic design of high-lift systems.