High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages iii-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-7

3. Description of Flows at High Angles of Attack

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   Pages 8-61

4. The Topology of Separating and Reattaching Vortical Flows

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   Pages 62-77

5. Linear Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies

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   Pages 78-130

6. Vortex Flows and the Rolled Up Vortex Wake

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   Pages 131-149

7. Nonlinear Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies at High Angles of Attack

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   Pages 150-176

8. The Nonlinear Panel Methods for Aircraft and Missile Configurations at High Angles of Attack

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   Pages 177-248

9. Solutions of the Euler Equations for Flows over Configurations at High Angles of Attack

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   Pages 249-314

10. Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations for Flows over Configurations at High Angles of Attack

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    Pages 315-384

11. Back Matter

    Pages 385-399

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The aerodynamics of aircraft at high angles of attack is a subject which is being pursued diligently, because the modern agile fighter aircraft and many of the current generation of missiles must perform well at very high incidence, near and beyond stall. However, a comprehensive presentation of the methods and results applicable to the studies of the complex aerodynamics at high angle of attack has not been covered in monographs or textbooks. This book is not the usual textbook in that it goes beyond just presenting the basic theoretical and experimental know-how, since it contains reference material to practical calculation methods and technical and experimental results which can be useful to the practicing aerospace engineers and scientists. It can certainly be used as a text and reference book for graduate courses on subjects related to high angles of attack aerodynamics and for topics related to three-dimensional separation in viscous flow courses. In addition, the book is addressed to the aerodynamicist interested in a comprehensive reference to methods of analysis and computations of high angle of attack flow phenomena and is written for the aerospace scientist and engineer who is familiar with the basic concepts of viscous and inviscid flows and with computational methods used in fluid dynamics.

• aerodynamics
• dynamics
• flows
• fluid dynamics
• fluid- and aerodynamics

• Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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