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Index
Cover
Aerospace Series List
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Series Preface
Preface
List of Symbols
Greek Symbols
Subscripts
Greek Subscripts
Superscripts
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Conceptual Landscape
Chapter 2: From Elementary Particles to Aerodynamic Flows
Chapter 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
3.4 The Equations of Motion and their Physical Meaning
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
3.9 Dynamic Similarity
3.10 “Incompressible” Flow and Potential Flow
3.11 Compressible Flow and Shocks
Chapter 4: Boundary Layers
4.1 Physical Aspects of Boundary-Layer Flows
4.2 Boundary-Layer Theory
4.3 Flat-Plate Boundary Layers and Other Simplified Cases
4.4 Transition and Turbulence
4.5 Control and Prevention of Flow Separation
4.6 Heat Transfer and Compressibility
4.7 Effects of Surface Roughness
Chapter 5: General Features of Flows around Bodies
5.1 The Obstacle Effect
5.2 Basic Topology of Flow Attachment and Separation
5.3 Wakes
5.4 Integrated Forces: Lift and Drag
Chapter 6: Drag and Propulsion
6.1 Basic Physics and Flowfield Manifestations of Drag and Thrust
6.2 Drag Estimation
6.3 Drag Reduction
Chapter 7: Lift and Airfoils in 2D at Subsonic Speeds
7.1 Mathematical Prediction of Lift in 2D
7.2 Lift in Terms of Circulation and Bound Vorticity
7.3 Physical Explanations of Lift in 2D
7.4 Airfoils
Chapter 8: Lift and Wings in 3D at Subsonic Speeds
8.1 The Flowfield around a 3D Wing
8.2 Distribution of Lift on a 3D Wing
8.3 Induced Drag
8.4 Wingtip Devices
8.5 Manifestations of Lift in the Atmosphere at Large
8.6 Effects of Wing Sweep
Chapter 9: Theoretical Idealizations Revisited
9.1 Approximations Grouped According to how the Equations were Modified
9.2 Some Tools of MFD (Mental Fluid Dynamics)
Chapter 10: Modeling Aerodynamic Flows in Computational Fluid Dynamics
10.1 Basic Definitions
10.2 The Major Classes of CFD Codes and Their Applications
10.3 Basic Characteristics of Numerical Solution Schemes
10.4 Physical Modeling in CFD
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 a CFD Code before Running it
References
Index
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