James DeLaurier

Aircraft Design Concepts

An Introductory Course

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aircraft Design Concepts: An Introductory Course introduces the principles of aircraft design through a quantitative approach developed from the authorâ s extensive teaching experience. Building on prerequisite courses, the text develops basic design skills and methodologies, while also explaining the underlying physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 582
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1230g
• ISBN-13: 9781138033399
• ISBN-10: 1138033391
• Artikelnr.: 59999015

Autorenporträt

James DeLaurier has worked as an aerospace engineer, consultant, and professor. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has worked at McDonnell Aircraft, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Sheldahl Corporation, and the Battelle Memorial Foundation. Until his retirement in 2006, Dr. DeLaurier was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Toronto. His specialties include aircraft design, lighter-than-air aerial vehicles, flapping-wing flying machines, and remote-piloted/microwave-powered aircraft.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. Aerodynamic Review. 3. Propeller Analysis. 4. Flying
Wing (or Tailless Airplanes). 5. Canard Airplanes and Biplanes. 6. Flight
Dynamics. 7. Performance. 8. Balloons and Airships. Appendix A. Multhropp
Body-Moment Equation. Appendix B. Alternative Swept-Wing Analysis. Appendix
C. Rigid-Body Equations of Motion. Appendix D. Apparent-Mass Effects.
Appendix E. Lift of Finite Wings Due to Oscillatory Plunging Acceleration.