Applied Aerodynamics: An Online Digital Textbook
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Graduate |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering Design |
| Learning Resource Type: | Teaching - Educator's Guide/Manual |
| Author(s): | Ilan Kroo Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University |
| Description: | This text was developed for a course in applied aerodynamics at Stanford University. The first year graduate course includes topics ranging from a review of the basic, governing equations of fluid flow to practical issues related to airfoil and wing design. The course included approximately 26 lectures dealing with the basic topics, with weekly problem sets to encourage students to explore topics more fully. These notes were used as part of the course reading materials. It is impossible to discuss applied aerodynamics without reference to computational methods, and the course makes use of several programs for aerodynamic analysis of airfoils and wings, limited versions of which are included here. The material presented here complements a separate course in compressible flow theory, and many important issues are left to that course, while a continuation of this material is given in courses on advanced aerodynamic topics and aircraft design. This digital text is intended to supplement a more conventional textbook in applied aerodynamics. The material has been composed based on lecture notes over the last few years and is continually under development, so your comments and suggestions are helpful. This demonstration version does not include several chapters that are available in the released version. Video clips, problem sets, and some java applets are also omitted. To obtain a complete copy on CD for Windows or Mac, see the Applied Aerodynamics page on the Desktop Aeronautics web site at: http://www.desktopaero.com/appliedaero/appliedaero.html |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process |
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Textbook Excellent free online textbook. Supported by Google ads. |
| Difficulty: | Difficult |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | October 2006 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://appliedaerodynamics.com/ |
| Copyright and Use Restrictions: | This version of the textbook is provided for examination purposes only, but includes much of the actual textbook. This is NOT a public domain version and you may not make copies. We have spent an absurd amount of time on this and invested a great deal of money. We have to recover at least some of our investment if we are to undertake such projects in the future. So, enjoy browsing this demo and then order the complete text on CD from Desktop Aeronautics. The complete version includes many interesting topics not available in this version: video clips, a section on forward swept wings and oblique wings, a supersonic airfoil analysis applet, a chapter on boundary layers with interactive calculations, more details on canard analysis, and many others. |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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