Low-Speed Aerodynamics: From Wing Theory to Panel Methods (McGraw-Hill Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering)

By Allen Plotkin, Joseph Katz, Allen Plotkin

Book Overview

Low-Speed Aerodynamics is important in the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach number, as well as for ground and marine vehicles. This 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 the computational approach (from a single vortex element to a three-dimensional panel formulation) interwoven throughout. Thus, the reader can learn about classical methods to solve real world aerodynamics problems. This second edition includes a new chapter on the laminar boundary layer, the latest versions of computational technique, and additional coverage of interaction problems. It includes a systematic treatment of two-dimensional panel methods and a detailed presentation of computational techniques for three-dimensional and unsteady flows. With extensive illustrations and examples, this book will be useful for senior and beginning graduate-level courses as well as a useful reference for practicing engineers. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070504466
• ISBN13: 9780070504462
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.8"

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.