Instabilities of Flows and Transition to Turbulence

Instabilities of Flows and Transition to Turbulence
Author: Tapan K. Sengupta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439879451

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This book covers material ranging from classical hydrodynamic instability to contemporary research areas, including bluff body flow instability and mixed convection flows. It also examines applications in aerospace and other branches of engineering such as fluid mechanics. The author addresses classical material as well as new perspectives and presents comprehensive coverage of receptivity to complement the instability material. This book presents a concise, up-to-date treatment of theory and applications of viscous flow instability, providing both current knowledge and techniques.

Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics

Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics
Author: Tapan K. Sengupta
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118787595

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Aerodynamics has seen many developments due to the growth of scientific computing, which has caused the design cycle time of aerospace vehicles to be heavily reduced. Today computational aerodynamics appears in the preliminary step of a new design, relegating costly, time-consuming wind tunnel testing to the final stages of design. Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics is aimed to be a comprehensive textbook, covering classical aerodynamic theories and recent applications made possible by computational aerodynamics. It starts with a discussion on lift and drag from an overall dynamical approach, and after stating the governing Navier-Stokes equation, covers potential flows and panel method. Low aspect ratio and delta wings (including vortex breakdown) are also discussed in detail, and after introducing boundary layer theory, computational aerodynamics is covered for DNS and LES. Other topics covered are on flow transition to analyse NLF airfoils, bypass transition, streamwise and cross-flow instability over swept wings, viscous transonic flow over airfoils, low Reynolds number aerodynamics, high lift devices and flow control. Key features: Blends classical theories of incompressible aerodynamics to panel methods Covers lifting surface theories and low aspect ratio wing and wing-body aerodynamics Presents computational aerodynamics from first principles for incompressible and compressible flows Covers unsteady and low Reynolds number aerodynamics Includes an up-to-date account of DNS of airfoil aerodynamics including flow transition for NLF airfoils Contains chapter problems and illustrative examples Accompanied by a website hosting problems and a solution manual Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students, and is also aimed to be a useful resource book on aerodynamics for researchers and practitioners in the research labs and the industry.

Natural Laminar Flow and Laminar Flow Control

Natural Laminar Flow and Laminar Flow Control
Author: R.W. Barnwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461228727

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Research on laminar flow and its transition to turbulent flow has been an important part of fluid dynamics research during the last sixty years. Since transition impacts, in some way, every aspect of aircraft performance, this emphasis is not only understandable but should continue well into the future. The delay of transition through the use of a favorable pressure gradient by proper body shaping (natural laminar flow) or the use of a small amount of suction (laminar flow control) was recognized even in the early 1930s and rapidly became the foundation of much of the laminar flow research in the U.S. and abroad. As one would expect, there have been many approaches, both theoretical and experimental, employed to achieve the substantial progress made to date. Boundary layer stability theories have been formu lated and calibrated by a good deal of wind tunnel and flight experiments. New laminar now airfoils and wings have been designed and many have been employed in aircraft designs. While the early research was, of necessity, concerned with the design of subsonic aircraft interest has steadily moved to higher speeds including those appropriate to planetary entry. Clearly, there have been substantial advances in our understanding of transition physics and in the development and application of transition prediction methodolo gies to the design of aircraft.

NASA SP.

NASA SP.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1991
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

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Lecture series

Lecture series
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2003
Genre: Fluid dynamic measurements
ISBN:

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NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Flight environment, operations, flight testing, and research

NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Flight environment, operations, flight testing, and research
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 2010
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

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Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.