A powerful new monograph from an aerodynamicist reviewing modern
conventional aerodynamic approaches, this volume covers aspects of
subsonic, transonic and supersonic flow, inverse problems, shear
flow analysis, jet engine power addition, engine and airframe
integration, and other areas, providing readers with the tools
needed to evaluate their own ideas and to implement the newer
methods suggested in this book. This new book, by a prolific
fluid-dynamicist and mathematician who has published more than
twenty research monographs, represents not just another
contribution to aerodynamics, but a book that raises serious
questions about traditionally accepted approaches and formulations,
providing new methods that solve longstanding problems of
importance to the industry. While both conventional and newer ideas
are discussed, the presentations are readable and geared to
advanced undergraduates with exposure to elementary differential
equations and introductory aerodynamics principles. Readers are
introduced to fundamental algorithms (with Fortran source code) for
basic applications, such as subsonic lifting airfoils, transonic
supercritical flows utilizing mixed differencing, models for
inviscid shear flow aerodynamics, and so on. These are models they
can extend to include newer effects developed in the second half of
the book. Many of the newer methods have appeared over the years in
various journals and are now presented with deeper perspective and
integration. This book helps readers approach the literature more
critically. Rather than simply understanding an approach, for
instance, the powerful "type differencing" behind transonic
analysis, or the rationale behind "conservative" formulations, or
the use of Euler equation methods for shear flow analysis when they
are unnecessary, the author guides and motivates the user to ask
why and why not and what if. And often, more powerful methods can
be developed using no more than simple mathematical manipulations.
For example, Cauchy-Riemann conditions, which are powerful tools in
subsonic airfoil theory, can be readily extended to handle
compressible flows with shocks, rotational flows, and even
three-dimensional wing flowfields, in a variety of applications, to
produce powerful formulations that address very difficult problems.
This breakthrough volume is certainly a "must have" on every
engineer's bookshelf.
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