The Vortex and the Jet : A Journey into the Beauty and Mystery of Flight.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Images
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Vortex-A Journey into Beauty and Mystery
- 2 The Vortex and Wing Lift
- 2.1 The Bound Vortex
- 2.2 Circulation
- 2.3 Friction to the Rescue
- 3 Frictionless Air Cannot Provide Lift: A Paradox
- 3.1 The Trailing Edge
- 3.2 The Leading Edge
- 3.3 A Better Model
- 4 Drag, a Nightmare and a Challenge
- 4.1 The Air Near a Surface
- 4.1.1 The Boundary Layer Comes in Various Thicknesses
- 4.2 How Important is Fluid Friction?
- 4.3 Mr. Reynolds and His Number
- 4.4 Scale Model Testing
- 4.5 Turbulent Flow
- 4.6 Vortex Generators
- 5 Pressure: The Bernoulli Principle and Flow Energy Conservation
- 5.1 Air is Compressible (Sometimes)
- 5.1.1 An Aside: How Good is Air?
- 5.2 Entropy (Arrrgh!@*#*!)
- 5.3 Energy Conservation on a Streamline
- 5.4 Enthalpy is a Property. Really? Really!
- 5.4.1 A Few Details About Specific Heats
- 5.5 Total Temperature
- 5.6 Bernoulli at Last
- 5.7 Total Pressure
- 6 Pressure, Pressure, It's All About Pressure!
- 6.1 Forces and Moments
- 6.2 Data for a Simple Airfoil
- 6.3 Calculation Iterations Toward Realism
- 6.4 Vorticity Provides More Than Lift, It Adds to Drag!
- 6.5 Flight in Ground Effect
- 6.6 Dynamic Pressure and Those Convenient and Pesky Coefficients
- 6.7 The Pitot Probe and Dynamic Pressure
- 7 Putting It All Together
- 7.1 Wing Lift Performance with Viscous Air
- 7.2 Stall
- 7.3 Why Does a Wing Stall?
- 7.4 Adverse Pressure
- 7.5 Transonic Flight
- 7.6 Shock Waves
- 7.7 Condensation at High Speed
- 7.8 Supersonic Wings
- 7.9 All the Airplane Aerodynamics in One Place
- 7.10 The Computer to the Rescue
- 7.11 Aerodynamic Heating is Not Due to Friction
- 8 The Jet: Fluid in Motion and More Vorticity
- 8.1 Prop Tip Vortices
- 8.2 Jet Boundaries Are Cylindrical Sheets of Vorticity.
- 8.3 An Aircraft Can Never Have 100% Propulsive Efficiency
- 8.3.1 A Quantitative Aside
- 8.4 Counter-Rotating Props
- 9 Propulsion for Flight: Power or Thrust?
- 9.1 The Engines: Stark Differences
- 9.2 Limits of the Old
- 9.2.1 The First Jet?
- 9.3 The Gas Turbine or 'Jet' Engine
- 9.4 Is the Gas Turbine Engine Like Another Familiar Engine?
- 9.4.1 Yes, the Steam Engine!
- 9.5 Energy Conservation Again, for Steady Flow Through Engines
- 9.5.1 A Little Mathematics, Briefly
- 9.5.2 What Happens in a Real Jet Engine?
- 9.6 Design Issues
- 10 The Compressor: Gas Turbine Engine Keystone
- 10.1 Axial Flow Compressor: The Bedrock of Modern Engines
- 10.2 Compressor Pressure Ratio
- 10.3 Compressor Aerodynamics
- 10.4 How Well?-Efficiency
- 10.5 The Control Problem
- 11 Bypass and Other Engines
- 11.1 The Fan on a Turbofan Engine Has No IGV
- 11.2 Bypass Ratio
- 11.3 Turboprops and Turboshaft Engines
- 12 Other Components of the Jet Engine
- 12.1 The Turbine
- 12.2 The Combustor
- 12.3 Putting It Together into an Engine
- 12.4 How Do You Start This Thing?
- 12.5 Bleed Valves and Variable Stator Geometry
- 13 More Components: Inlets, Mixers, and Nozzles
- 13.1 Inlets
- 13.1.1 An Old Wives' Tale About Inlets
- 13.2 Inlet Geometry and Diverters
- 13.3 Mixing
- 13.4 The Nozzle
- 13.5 Choking
- 13.6 More Extreme Nozzles: The Rocket Engine
- 13.6.1 Overexpansion
- 13.6.2 Under-Expansion
- 13.6.3 Staging
- 13.6.4 Specific Impulse and a Little Chemistry
- 13.7 Airplane Range
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Equations for Quantitative Descriptions
- A.1 Motion with Circular Streamlines
- A.2 Air as a Medium
- A.3 The Descriptive Constants
- A.4 The Gas Properties
- A.5 The Flight Equations
- A.6 The Equations of Aerothermodynamics
- A.6.1 The Energy Equation Along a (Steady) Streamline
- A.6.2 Compressibility.
- A.6.3 Isentropic Relation Between Two States 1 and 2
- A.6.4 Heating Total Pressure Loss
- Appendix B Some Quantitative Aspects of Aerodynamics and Thermodynamics
- B.1 Entropy is a Fact
- B.2 Compressibility
- B.3 Boundary Layers
- Appendix C Induced Drag
- Appendix D Aerodynamic Performance Summary
- -4pt- Glossary of Technical Terms
- References
- Index.