The book provides a solid and unitary mathematical foundation of the basic and advanced principles of aerodynamics. The densities of the fundamental solutions are determined from singular integral equations. The fundamental solutions method in aerodynamics was considered for the first time and used by the author in over 30 papers published in prestigious journals (e.g. QAM, AIAA, ZAMM, etc) in order to develop a unitary theory. The boundary element method is used for numerical approximations in compressible aerodynamics. The text incorporates several original contributions, among other traditional mathematical methods. The book also represents a comprehensive presentation of research results since the seminal books on aerodynamics of Ashley and Landahl (1965) and Katz & Plotkin (1991). A rigorous mathematical approach is used to present and explain classic and modern results in this field of science. The author has therefore conceived several appendices on the Distribution Theory, the singular Integral Equations Theory, the Finite Part, Gauss Quadrature Formulae, etc. The book is concluded by a relevant bibliographical list which is especially useful for researchers. The book is ai
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Lazãr Dragos Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info] Edition: 2004 ed. Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 2.940kg ISBN:9781402016639 ISBN 10: 1402016638 Pages: 573 Publication Date:29 February 2004 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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1 The Equations of Ideal Fluids.- 1.1 The Equations of Motion.- 1.2 The Potential Flow.- 1.3 The Shock Waves Theory.- 2 The Equations of Linear Aerodynamics and its Fundamental Solutions.- 2.1 The Equations of Linear Aerodynamics.- 2.2 The Fundamental Solutions of the Equation of the Potential.- 2.3 The Fundamental Solutions of the Steady System.- 2.4 The Fundamental Solutions of the Oscillatory System.- 2.5 Fundamental Solutions of the Unsteady System I.- 3 The Infinite Span Airfoil in Subsonic Flow.- 3.1 The Airfoil in the Unlimited Fluid.- 3.2 The Airfoil in Ground Effects.- 3.3 The Airfoil in Tunnel Effects.- 3.4 Airfoils Parallel to the Undisturbed Stream.- 3.5 Grids of Profiles.- 3.6 Airfoils in Tandem.- 4 The Application of the Boundary Element Method to the Theory of the Infinite Span Airfoil in Subsonic Flow.- 4.1 The Equations of Motion.- 4.2 Indirect Methods for the Unlimited Fluid Case.- 4.3 The Direct Method for the Unlimited Fluid Case.- 4.4 The Airfoil in Ground Effects.- 4.5 The Airfoil in Tunnel Effects.- 4.6 Other Methods. The Intrinsic Integral Equation.- 5 The Theory of Finite Span Airfoil in Subsonic Flow. The Lifting Surface Theory.- 5.1 The Lifting Surface Equation.- 5.2 Methods for the Numerical Integration of the Lifting Surface Equation.- 5.3 Ground Effects in the Lifting Surface Theory.- 5.4 The Wing of Low Aspect Ratio.- 6 The Lifting Line Theory.- 6.1 Prandtl’s Theory.- 6.2 The Theory of Integration of Prandtl’s Equation. The Reduction to Fredholm-Type Integral Equations.- 6.3 The Symmetrical Wing. Vekua’s Equation. A Larger Class of Exact Solutions.- 6.4 Numerical Methods.- 6.5 Various Extensions of the Lifting Line Theory.- 6.6 The Lifting Line Theory in Ground Effects.- 6.7 The Curved Lifting Line.- 7 The Application of the BoundaryIntegral Equations Method to the Theory of the Three-Dimensional Airfoil in Subsonic Flow.- 7.1 The First Indirect Method (Sources Distributions).- 7.2 The Second Indirect Method (Doublet Distributions). The Incompressible Fluid.- 7.3 The Direct Method. The Incompressible Fluid.- 8 The Supersonic Steady Flow.- 8.1 The Thin Airfoil of Infinite Span.- 8.2 Ground and Tunnel Effects.- 8.3 The Three-Dimensional Wing.- 8.4 The Theory of Integration of the H Equation.- 8.5 The Theory of Conical Motions.- 8.6 Flat Wings.- 9 The Steady Transonic Flow.- 9.1 The Equations of the Transonic Flow.- 9.2 The Plane Flow.- 9.3 The Three-Dimensional Flow.- 10 The Unsteady Flow.- 10.1 The Oscillatory Profile in a Subsonic Stream.- 10.2 The Oscillatory Surface in a Subsonic Stream.- 10.3 The Theory of the Oscillatory Profile in a Supersonic Stream.- 10.4 The Theory of the Oscillatory Wing in a Supersonic Stream.- 10.5 The Oscillatory Profile in a Sonic Stream.- 10.6 The Three-Dimensional Sonic Flow.- 11 The Theory of Slender Bodies.- 11.1 The Linear Equations and Their Fundamental Solutions.- 11.2 The Slender Body in a Subsonic Stream.- 11.3 The Thin Body in a Supersonic Stream.- A Fourier Transform and Notions of the Theory of Distributions.- A.1 The Fourier Transform of Functions.- A.3 Distributions.- A.4 The Convolution. Fundamental Solutions.- A.6 The Fourier Transform of the Temperate Distributions.- A.7 The Calculus of Some Inverse Fourier Transforms.- A.8 The Fourier Transform in Bounded Domains.- B Cauchy-type Integrals. Dirichlet’s Problem for the Half-Plane. The Calculus of Some Integrals.- B.1 Cauchy-type Integrals.- B.2 The Principal Value in Cauchy’s Sense.- B.3 Plemelj’s Formulas.- B.4 The Dirichlet’s Problem for the Half-Plane.- B.5 The Calculus of Certain Integralsin the Complex Plane.- B.6 Glauert’s Integral. Its Generalization and Some Applications.- B.7 Other Integrals.- C Singular Integral Equations.- C.1 The Thin Profile Equation.- C.2 The Generalized Equation of Thin Profiles.- C.3 The Third Equation.- C.4 The Forth Equation.- C.5 The Fifth Equation.- D The Finite Part.- D.1 Introductory Notions.- D.2 The First Integral.- D.3 Integrals with Singularities in an Interval.- D.4 Hadamard-Type Integrals.- D.5 Generalization.- E Singular Multiple Integrals.- F Gauss-Type Quadrature Formulas.- F.1 General Theorems.- F.2 Formulas of Interest in Aerodynamics.- F.3 The Modified Monegato’s Formula.- F.4 A Useful Formula.