Overview
A new avenue to flight dynamics through equations of motion
Focus put on the important issues: trajectory analysis and stability and control
Complete algorithms are presented for computing aerodynamics
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Flight mechanics is the application of Newton's laws to the study of vehicle trajectories (performance), stability, and aerodynamic control. This text is concerned with the derivation of analytical solutions of airplane flight mechanics problems associated with flight in a vertical plane. Algorithms are presented for calculating lift, drag, pitching moment, and stability derivatives. Flight mechanics is a discipline. As such, it has equations of motion, acceptable approximations, and solution techniques for the approximate equations of motion. Once an analytical solution has been obtained, numbers are calculated in order to compare the answer with the assumptions used to derive it and to acquaint students with the sizes of the numbers. A subsonic business jet is used for these calculations.
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"The text under review addresses performance, stability, and control (static and dynamic) characteristics of aircraft from the viewpoint, according to the author, of a one semester, junior-level course on these topics. … It is readable, at an appropriate level for undergraduates … . It is also a good choice to help a more experienced person to come up to speed on basic flight mechanics. I certainly recommend it for these situations." (Keith Koenig, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (4), 2007)
"There are two basic problems in airplane mechanics: (1) given an airplane, what are its performance, stability and control characteristics? and (2) given performance, stability and control characteristics, what is the airplane? The book is concerned with the first problem, but its organization is motivated by the structure of the second problem. … The book is not only a very good educational tool, but also a competent research exposition monograph, and it is recommended to students and researchers in flight mechanics." (Adrian Carabineanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1126 (3), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics
Authors: David G. Hull
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46573-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-46571-3Published: 05 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07987-0Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46573-7Published: 20 January 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 298
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Automotive Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics