Rafael Palacios, Carlos E S Cesnik

Dynamics of Flexible Aircraft

Coupled Flight Mechanics, Aeroelasticity, and Control

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This text explores the interface between aeroelasticity, flight dynamics and control. Presenting concepts in a rigorous yet accessible way, the book builds up to state-of-the-art models through an intuitive step-by-step approach. It empowers the reader to design better, more eco-friendly aircraft, and features many hands on examples"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 176mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9781108420600
• ISBN-10: 1108420605
• Artikelnr.: 66460078

Autorenporträt

Rafael Palacios is Professor of Computational Aeroelasticity and Director of the Brahmal Vasudevan Institute for Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The non-stationary atmosphere
3. Dynamics of elastically-supported rigid airfoils
4. Dynamics of rigid aircraft in a non-stationary atmosphere
5. Dynamics of flexible aircraft with quasi-steady deformations
6. Dynamics of flexible aircraft with small-amplitude vibrations
7. Time-domain unsteady aerodynamics for low-speed flight 8. Geometrically-nonlinear composite beams
9. Dynamics of very flexible aircraft
10. Feedback control
11. Experimental testing
Appendices.