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  • Nov 2010

Analysis of Low-Speed Unsteady Airfoil Flows

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  1. Tuncer Cebeci

    1. The Boeing Company, Long Beach, USA
      Long Beach, USA

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  2. Max Platzer

    1. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA
      Pebble Beach, USA

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  3. Hsun Chen

    1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA

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  4. Kuo-Cheng Chang

    1. The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, USA

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  5. Jian P. Shao

    1. The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Physics of Unsteady Flows

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Differential Equations of Fluid Flow

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 21-29

  4. Panel Methods

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 31-48

  5. Applications of Panel Method

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 49-58

  6. Boundary-Layer Methods

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 59-91

  7. Applications of Boundary-Layer Methods: Flows Without Separation

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 93-104

  8. Applications of Boundary-Layer Methods: Flows with Separation

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 105-152

  9. Navier-Stokes Methods

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 153-190

  10. Applications of Navier-Stokes Methods

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 191-210

  11. Companion Computer Programs

    • Tuncer Cebeci, Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao
    Pages 211-223

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-226
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About this book

The standard textbooks on aerodynamics usually omit any discussion of un­ steady aerodynamics or, at most, consider it only in a single chapter, based on two justifications. The first is that unsteady aerodynamics should be regarded as a specialized subject required "only" in connection with understanding and an­ alyzing aeroelastic phenomena such as flutter and gust response, and therefore should be dealt with in related specialist books. The second reason appears to be reluctance to discuss aerodynamics with the inclusion of the time-dependent terms in the conservation equations and the boundary conditions for fear that added complications may discourage the reader. We take the opposite view in this book and argue that a full understanding of the physics of lift generation is possible only by considering the unsteady aerody­ namics of the starting vortex generation process. Furthermore, certain "steady" flows are inherently unsteady in the presence of flow separation, as for example the unsteady flow caused by the Karman vortex shedding downstream of a cylin­ der and "static" airfoil stall which is an inherently unsteady flow phenomenon. Therefore, it stands to reason that a unified treatment of aerodynamics that yields steady-state aerodynamics as a special case offers advantages. This rea­ soning is strengthened by the developments in computational fluid dynamics over the past forty years, which showed that accurate steady-state solutions can be obtained efficiently by solving the unsteady flow equations.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • The Boeing Company, Long Beach, USA

    Tuncer Cebeci

  • Long Beach, USA

    Tuncer Cebeci

  • Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

    Max Platzer

  • Pebble Beach, USA

    Max Platzer

  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA

    Hsun Chen

  • The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, USA

    Kuo-Cheng Chang, Jian P. Shao

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