Engineering Analysis of Flight Vehicles

by Ashley, Holt

• ISBN13: 9780486672137
• ISBN10: 0486672131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Excellent graduate-level text explores virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics and dynamics, and demonstrates how they interface with and complement one another in atmospheric flight vehicle design. Broad selection of helpful problems at the end of each chapter. Bibliography. "A fine book..."Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal. 1974 edition.

Author Biography

Holt Ashley (1923–2006) was Professor Emeritus of Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Best known for his pioneering research and books in the field of aeroelasticity, he devised methods that changed the design of structures ranging from wings to wind turbines.

Table of Contents

The Morphology of Flight Vehicles	p. 1
Equations of Motion for Rigid Flight Vehicles	p. 27
Introduction to Vehicle Aerodynamics	p. 51
Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Airloads on Thin Wings	p. 65
Propulsive Terms - One-Dimensional Analysis of Jet and Rocket Propulsion	p. 133
Small-Perturbation Response and Dynamic Stability of Right Vehicles	p. 173
Solution of the Small-Perturbation Equations of Motion	p. 207
Static Stability, Trim, Static Performance and Related Subjects	p. 247
Dynamic Performance: Boost from Nonrotating and Rotating Planets; Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations	p. 265
Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Slender and Blunt Bodies	p. 303
Dynamic Performance: Atmospheric Entry	p. 337
The Uses of Optimization	p. 349
References	p. 371
Index	p. 379
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