Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics
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Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics

About this book

Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics provides the wider aeronautical community with an insight into the historical development of aerodynamics. There were a number of key developments in the subject by German and Russian scientists and engineers such as Prandtl, Kutta and Zhukovskii at the beginning of the 20th century. All aerodynamics has been based on papers by these people but these fundamental papers are not available in English, indeed some of them have never before been translated.This text presents these papers, in English translation, together with an accompanying commentary putting them into the context of their period and showing their relevance to modern aerodynamics. Aimed at academics and professional engineers this book re-establishes the basis of the science of aerodynamics.- Fundamental material presented in English for the first time- Important historical developments put in context- Strong relevance to modern aerodynamics

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. A survey of the basic principles of modern aerodynamics
  7. Chapter 2. From antiquity to the age ofNewton
  8. Chapter 3. From Newton to the emergenceof the field theory of fluidflow
  9. Chapter 4. The era of the whirling arm and the invention of the aeroplane
  10. Chapter 5. Nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of fluid flow
  11. Chapter 6. Practical developments in aeronautics
  12. Chapter 7. Frederick William Lanchester (1868–1946)
  13. Chapter 8. Lift forces in flowing fluids Kutta (1902)
  14. Chapter 9. On the motion of fluids with very little friction (Prandtl, 1904)
  15. Chapter 10. On annexed vortices (Zhukovskii, 1906a)
  16. Chapter 11. Boundary layers in fluids with small friction (Blasius, 1908)
  17. Chapter 12. On a two-dimensional flow related to the fundamentals of theproblems of flight (Kutta, 1910)
  18. Chapter 13. On the pressure exerted by a plane-parallel flow on obstructingb odies (aeroplane theory) (Chaplygin, 1910)
  19. Chapter 14. On the contours of the aerofoils of hang gliders (Zhukovskii, 1920)
  20. Chapter 15. Subsequent developments
  21. References
  22. Index